Dauphin Island Spot Guide

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. Dauphin Island Pier is probably the most reliable spot along Dauphin Island, particularly during a properly directed hurricane swell with N-NW winds, where an assortment of lefts and rights break softly over a sand bottom.