Recon

sometimes, on days like today when there's a bit of swell but the wind is all wrong, I like to drive around and check different spots and see the potential...some are spots I surf frequently, some only occasionally, and others I've never surfed, but keep hoping to catch them on a magic day...for example, there's this jetty near where I live...on the south side the waves usually pile up in a chaotic mess of closeouts, though I have surfed it a few times in the past...now on the north side, is a spot I've never surfed, and yet I keep checking it, hoping...it looks very similar to Sebastian Inlet down in Florida, right down to the same bend in the jetty...and yet, I've never seen anything worthy of a go out...oh sure, you could say it just isn't a surfable spot, but, I can't help but think I just haven't caught it at the right time, with the right conditions...there's so many variables involved with surfing in Maine: tides can range a dozen feet or more; with the convoluted coastline, there are shores that face virtually every compass direction; winds can blow from all directions too, and sometimes be veered and disrupted by landmasses, headlands, or even man-made structures...you can never be sure that a spot isn't worth a check unless you've seen it under ALL conditions...and that could take a lifetime...so I keep searching, hunting...hoping that one day all the variables will align for a magic session at a never before surfed spot...recon; patience; perseverance...