Today — right on the edge — wave, wind and surge pounding.
Sources & confidence
Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine · How it works →
The verdict comes from seven water factors and hard safety gates — not ten tabs. Go or stay.
Our own model
Our own forecast engine — not a third-party widget. It weighs these water factors into one go-or-stay verdict for this coast; the 0–10 dial is that verdict, read out as a number.
Safety gates
It all folds into a single 0–10 score and one verdict: go or stay.
A forecast, not a guarantee — the sea has the last word.
Where to get in, where to hunt
Leave your email — and the moment a window opens at Normanville, we'll send the go / no-go verdict. Email is all we need.
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Wind, wave and the swell windows — when to go and the best hours.
The day is picked above, in the hero. Here are that day's windows, the hour-by-hour map and the trends. Tap a window to break down the conditions.
Visibility and what drives it — post-storm clearing, river plume, temperature and the thermocline.
spearo.app folds wind, wave, swell period, visibility, tides, water temperature and risk into a single verdict — go to the spot or not. It computes 7 days ahead from open marine models (Open-Meteo, IPMA), with no sign-up and no accounts. Built for solo spearfishing off the rocks, where any mistake costs dearly.
Now live: 3016 spots across 406 stretches of coast — mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores.
See all spotsRelief and bottom type, tides, and the depths of each spot.
The models set the window. Whether you go in is read only at the water: count the sets, watch the surge on the entry. If in doubt, you don't get in.
Scouted entries, coloured by today. The colour is the sea state at the spot, not a guarantee: the wash and a slippery entry you judge on site.
Open the seafloor mapLow Haycock Point closes the north end of the 7.3 km Normanville beach, where seagrass grows to within about 50 m of the shore. The beach record lists the point, with the jetty, as shore access. The habitat map shows sand at the mark and low reef with macroalgae 40 to 95 m away.
Google MapsCameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Check the cam BEFORE you leave. Foam, brown/green murk, or waves washing the entry rocks = No-go. At night/in fog the cam is useless — treat it as «unknown», NOT «green».
Rules as of now — 25.10.2026 18:29 (Australia/Adelaide)
Victor Harbor Offshore buoy: wave 1.8 m · 49 min ago(model: 0.9 m)
Rock reefs at the southern end of Normanville beach, at Lady Bay below Yankalilla Hill, where the beach record notes good public access. The mark sits inside low reef with macroalgae, and Reef Life Survey has surveyed a site 0.8 km away since 2017.
A 4 km beach below 100 m grassy bluffs, lined by 50 to 100 m of intertidal rock flats, with a car park where Cape Jervis Road turns inland. The mark is on low reef with macroalgae; seagrass begins about 57 m out.
Google MapsSOLO is the biggest risk: underwater you can black out from lack of oxygen silently and fatally, with no one around. Solo is never truly «safe». Below are the best weather windows; carry a buoy, tell someone your plan and exit time, and any doubt — don't go.
Rules change and vary BY STATE. Before heading out, check with your state's fisheries (NSW DPI, Fisheries QLD, VFA, DPIRD WA, PIRSA, NRE Tas, NT Fisheries) and the marine-park zoning map.
Normanville has rock entry points such as Haycock Point, Lady Bay reef and Yankalilla Bay rocks. Normanville faces west-north-west and is open from the west-south-west round to the north. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
Summer–autumn — warm, clear gulfs; mind the dodge tides and sharks.
16–22 °C — 5 mm suit; warm gulfs but more sharks.
Moderate: warm, clear water, but dodge tides and sharks.
Normanville is in SA. No licence in South Australia — but the Adelaide-metro spearfishing closures apply (Port Noarlunga) and you may not spear within 200 m of certain river mouths. Spearfishing on scuba is banned everywhere, rock lobster may never be speared, and marine-park sanctuary/green zones are no-take. See the guide for the state-by-state detail.
