We went from Red Hook to Shooters Island in the double with a lot of other people who came from Manhattan.
It was pretty windy and it made for a long paddle down and back, although we had it much easier since we launched and landed from Brooklyn, while the others came from 42nd St in Manhattan.
A cool and overcast day, and the last one we would be able to paddle in without wearing drysuits for the year.
Shooters Island was nice, but didn't have time to hang-out there since we had to catch the tide, and didn't want to be out in the dark when it would have gotten quite a bit colder. We will have to go back there since there was a ton of beach glass and other cool stuff on the beach.
Truth: It gets dark every day.
I went to the annual Autumn Gales event run by Kayak Wavelogoy.
We did paddling on our own on Wednesday and Thursday and participated in the sponsored paid, supervised stuff on Friday and Saturday.
On Wednesday and Thursday it was really windy so we didn't get any actual tidal race surfing in, but we made up for that on the last two days when we surfed the flood on Friday, and both the flood and Ebb on Saturday.
The one day that really sticks out was the last day on the ebb on Sugar Reef when the conditions were really large. I surfed some of the waves, but since we had also been out playing on the flood a few hours before I really didn't have the energy to do much on the really big stuff on the outer reef. I also got a bit seasick near the end of it when the conditions became really really large.
