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The best wave, 30 minutes walk from Santa Maria, is Ponta Preta, which has long rights peeling over black boulders. It's best with a decent NW swell, low tide and when the usual sideshore wind is light. The point picks up any good swell and breaks quite a distance away from the rocks, although the end of the ride suffers from backwash. There's also an awesome left, but it's exposed to the wind and breaks hard onto rocks: experts only.
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This graph shows the percentage of days that had a ridable wind swell (7 seconds period or more) or groundswell (10 seconds period or more) of over 3ft. It also shows the dominant wind direction. Not all of these days will neccessarily give great surf, and very short lived wind swells or longer period secondary swells may produce surf not recorded, but it gives a clear idea of the seasonal trend and a rough guide to the chances of scoring something ridable.
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