PIGEON POINT
We’re staying just five minutes drive from Pigeon Point at local Keith (better known as Electric’s) apartments. If you’ve never been to Tobago before, Pigeon Point is where the majority of windsurfing is done. It’s a huge play park. We enter through a maze of coconut trees, past the new windsurfing school – wow things have changed so much since the first time I visited in the 90s when this was only a small shack with just a few boards to rent, run by my cousin, John, the old-man-of-the-sea and the pioneer of windsurfing in Tobago. We reach the sandy beach, opening up to a huge lagoon, surrounded by the famous Bucco Reef. My brain is smiling. There’s a nice breeze blowing and the lagoon is flat and shallow, perfect for learning to waterstart or blast across or for freestyle, but all I’m interested in is the waves.