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Alabama Point surfspot characteristics

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General: With only about 50 miles of swell exposure and shallow sand flats hampering swell production — Alabama beachbreaks are abominably fickle and require a significant amount of local S-SE windswell or, more ideally, a strong tropical system to produce rideable waves. With its breakwater/seawall setup and assortment of jetties/groins, Alabama Point at Orange Beach often makes the most sense of any available energy from the Gulf, capable of holding up to six-foot faces during bigger SE swells, making it one of the best options on the Alabama mainland. Tides: If you catch a swell in Alabama, surf it into the ground. Tide be damned. Size: Knee-high to overhead. Wind: N Swell: SE Bottom: Sand. Paddling: It’s shallow, there’s structures — piece of cake. Spot Rating: Manmade structures make this one of Alabama’s most dependable surf zones. But it’s still Alabama.

Everybody until the rarest of hurricane swells produces spitting barrels, which draws rippers out of the woodwork.

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September-March

Crowd Factor: A big, moody swell might summon the odd ripper from the Panhandle, but there’s always more than enough to go around. Local Vibe: Alabamians are perhaps the friendliest surfers in the country. Both of them.

Silt from the Mississippi and a history of oil spills is the reality in the Gulf of Mexico. Historically failed to meet water quality standards, less than 60% of the time.

Sharks, jellyfish, pollution.