diff --git a/mhkit/tests/wave/io/hindcast/test_hindcast.py b/mhkit/tests/wave/io/hindcast/test_hindcast.py
index 73c57a2dd..379eeeee4 100644
--- a/mhkit/tests/wave/io/hindcast/test_hindcast.py
+++ b/mhkit/tests/wave/io/hindcast/test_hindcast.py
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ def test_multi_year(self):
         parameters = "significant_wave_height"
 
         wave_multiyear, meta = wave.io.hindcast.hindcast.request_wpto_point_data(
-            data_type, parameters, lat_lon, years, as_xarray=True
+            data_type, parameters, lat_lon, years, to_pandas=False
         )
         wave_multiyear_df = (
             wave_multiyear["significant_wave_height_0"]
diff --git a/mhkit/wave/io/hindcast/hindcast.py b/mhkit/wave/io/hindcast/hindcast.py
index 928bd30e0..126902bfb 100644
--- a/mhkit/wave/io/hindcast/hindcast.py
+++ b/mhkit/wave/io/hindcast/hindcast.py
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def request_wpto_point_data(
     str_decode=True,
     hsds=True,
     path=None,
-    to_pandas=False,
+    to_pandas=True,
 ):
     """
     Returns data from the WPTO wave hindcast hosted on AWS at the