June puts the Roaring Forties at full output. The systems that make swell here sit thousands of kilometres to the south, and in the southern winter they produce continuously, which is the only condition under which this coast gets consistent surf.
The reason it takes that much is Madagascar. The island lies across Mozambique's swell window from end to end, so what arrives has either pushed up the channel between the island and the mainland or come round the north of it, and in both cases a large part of the energy has been left behind. That is why Mozambique is a long-and-steady coast rather than a big-wave one, why the north of the country barely breaks at all, and why a swell that would be a serious event in South Africa arrives here as a clean, workable, waist-to-head-high week.
Tofinho is what the month is for: a right over sand and rock, running properly, with the water at 25°C and nobody on it.
