On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, August 31. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

4.4OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current.

10 mph E · thunderstorms · incoming

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 5.2hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 5.2hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 5.1channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

seychelles · Mahé

Inner islands / Mahé

5.5OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — the same reef edges, then the drop if you came to troll. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

22 mph SE · rain · outgoing

Where

  • Ste Anne Marine Park · 6.0sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Mahé brief