When surfing the East Coast under a southerly swell regime, as is happening now, you cant help but see the lines of swell marching up the coast and wonder how the islands to our north are faring. If the surf is only glancing our coast what's happening at those reefs that face square into the swell?

One such wave is Cloudbreak, and it's been pumping since the weekend, with strong southerly swell pushing up from the Southern Ocean, through the Tasman Sea onto Fiji.

On Monday, a large southerly groundswell swept across the southern NSW coast. The same swell impacted the Fijian islands yesterday, delivering large 8-10ft perfection (below).

We're expecting to see similar swells impacting Fiji from the weekend through early next week as the storm track lines up beautifully through their swell window. We're currently seeing multiple fronts pushing across Tasmania and the Tasman Sea - squarely inside Cloudbreak's swell window - generating large long-period south-southwest groundswell pulses.

These swells will first impact the East Coast, with the strongest out of the two coming in at 4-6ft surf across south facing beaches in Sydney on Friday morning, followed by a secondary pulse Sunday morning to 3-5ft.

These swells will then continue onto Fiji, with Friday's swell peaking through Sunday afternoon across Cloudbreak to 8-10ft. The secondary swell is then due to build through Tuesday afternoon, again pulsing to 8-10ft before easing Wednesday. One more final reinforcing swell is due Thursday to 6-8ft before the swell window quietens owing to a broad cut-off low forming across south-eastern Australia.

Conditions for most of the period are great for Cloudbreak with weak east-southeast trades, but a slight swing to more southerly breezes will favour Restaurants during Tuesday's building swell.