On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, August 5. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

6.9OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — verify which creeks are actually open, then wait for water.

11 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • Cherokee Sound · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Great Guana ocean reef / bar · 5.9sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • The Marls · 5.7hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Abaco brief

Right desk

seychelles · Mahé

Inner islands / Mahé

7.0OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — Ste Anne and the inner edges — a GT, not the Alphonse photograph.

12 mph SSE · incoming

Where

  • Ste Anne Marine Park · 6.7sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Mahé brief