Hiriketiya Bay fits inside a three-hundred-metre horseshoe, and the shape does all the work. The two headlands wrap the swell, so the bay keeps a wave on the days the rest of the coast has shut: it is the fallback for the whole stretch, not just for the village.
It breaks both ways. The sand is on the right, and that is where the schools put their groups; further into the line-up there is rock.
Three hundred metres fills quickly. When it is on, the bay is busy, and that is the only fault of a place without many others.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Beginner, Intermediate
- Wave
- Left and right
- Bottom
- Sand
- Water
- 28 – 30 °C
- Wetsuit
- Shorty
- Swell window
- SSW – WSW
- Ideal wind
- NNE
- How often it works
- Consistent
- Crowd
- ●●●●○
- Danger
- ●●●○○
What to watch for
- Rocks
Technical figures read off published surf guides. Where two disagree, the sheet says so.
Other spots in Hiriketiya
See all spotsWhen this stops being enough, the step up is Hiriketiya Left, in the same village.