However if you wanted to gamble, there’s a reasonable chance that - much like Thursday - there may be a few windows of opportunity open up on Saturday.

We’ve got strengthening trades in the lower Coral Sea right now, and they’re building easterly swells that’ll provide plenty of surf through the weekend. 

With offshore winds there might be just enough to get a longboard sliding across the reefs.

More of the same intermittent east swell for the rest of the week, plus a new south swell for exposed south facing beaches in Northern NSW.