Strong cross-shore winds will spoil a coming swell while there's more opportunity for a surf next week with good pulses of swell and more favourable winds.

Winds are looking better this week with troughy weather and generally favourable morning conditions.

There's not much to chase on the weekend, while some better swell is due next week but with poor winds.

In the Coral Sea a depression on the end of the Monsoon Trough  is organising with a high likelihood of forming a tropical cyclone (TC Freddy) - this is looking like a handy swell producer for the region although no real size is expected as the system weakens as the swell producing fetch moves into the swell window.