Ngor Lefts

Ngor Lefts

The left on the other side of the same channel, on the same swell and the same forecast cell.

Ngor Lefts is the other side of the Ngor channel, a left over reef on the same north-west swell and the same south-easterly offshore as the right, and it works at all stages of the tide.

It returns the identical September figure to Ngor Rights, seven clean days out of thirty, because the two are a few hundred metres apart and read one cell of the forecast grid. That says nothing about which of them is better on the morning you look at both, and looking at both is the point of standing here.

What separates them is direction and shelter rather than quality. A goofy-footer has a reason to prefer this side, and the two do not take wind identically.

Urchins and rocks, as across the channel. Same entry, same footwear, same reason this is not the beach to learn on.

Spot sheet

Level
Intermediate, Advanced
Wave
Left
Bottom
Reef
Water
19 – 29 °C
Wetsuit
3/2 mm → Shorty
Swell window
WNW – NNW
Ideal wind
SE
Best tide
any tide
How often it works
Consistent
Crowd
●●●●○
Danger
●●●○○

A month in figures

In September, the month the forecast guides single out for this coast:

  • 24%Clean and surfable
  • 44%Blown out
  • 32%Too small

Shares of the month, from the published forecast statistics. The model reads a grid, so neighbouring breaks share a figure: this describes a stretch of coast, not this wave on its own. The other eleven months are not published.

Read the September guide for Senegal

What to watch for

  • Sea urchins
  • Rocks

Technical figures read off published surf guides. Where two disagree, the sheet says so.

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On the days this is too big, or for somebody starting out: Yoff Beach, in the same village.