On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, May 17. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

9.0OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — Boca Paila and the drains; tarpon live in the darker mouths.

7 mph E · outgoing

Where

  • Boca Paila · 8.7sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 8.3hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Ascension brief

Right desk

seychelles · Mahé

Inner islands / Mahé

8.1OF 10

Day

low

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

Wind not in · incoming

Where

  • Ste Anne Marine Park · 7.0sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Mahé brief