Late afternoon is on target for a sneaky long range/long period pulse of southerly groundswell, sourced from a tight but intense polar low skirting the ice shelf this weekend.

A fast moving trough will bring an earlier onshore change and poor surf for the weekend, better next week with a mix of swells on the cards.

Increased swell activity from the Southern Ocean next week.

There’s just enough strength in the Coral Sea trade fetch to supply some small/tiny waves on low tides into the weekend.