Today — sit it out — wave, wind and visibility.
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 Yeppoon (Keppel Bay), 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 mapReef under Bluff Point south of Yeppoon; 2–6 m, low-mod viz, bream and cod. Keppel green zones offshore — check zoning. At spring low the reef all but dries: go in on the flood or at high water.
Google MapsCameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Rules as of now — 25.10.2026 14:38 (Australia/Brisbane)
transparency nearby ~7 m · satellite, 2 days agosatellite estimate · may differ right at the shore
Emu Park buoy: wave 0.7 m · 3 h ago
Rocky headland reef by Rosslyn Bay harbour; boulders 3–8 m, snapper, sweetlip, trevally. Big tidal range — dive near slack.
The full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appRock and rubble at the southern end of Mulambin, under the Rosslyn Bay headlands, 2–6 m. Inside the GBR Marine Park — check the GBRMPA zoning for this exact pin before spearing. Estuarine crocodiles are possible anywhere along this coast — it is inside the declared croc habitat, so check DES reports before entry. At spring low the reef end all but dries: go in on the flood or at high water.
Google MapsThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appSOLO 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.
Yeppoon (Keppel Bay) has rock entry points such as Double Head (Rosslyn Bay), Bluff Point / Statue Bay and Mulambin Beach — reef end. Keppel Bay headlands rather than reef proper — Double Head by Rosslyn Bay harbour and Bluff Point give boulders in 2–8 m with snapper, sweetlip, trevally and cod. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
Winter (May–Oct) — calmer trades, clear offshore reef; summer wet, cyclones.
22–28 °C — 2–3 mm suit; warm southern GBR, offshore reef.
Moderate–hard: offshore reef, boat needed; trades.
Yeppoon (Keppel Bay) is in QLD. No — Queensland has no general recreational licence, but the Great Barrier Reef zoning rules: spearing is allowed in General Use and Habitat Protection zones and banned in the green and pink ones. 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.
