Isla de Lobos (El Puente / El Bajón del Río - Las Setas)

The site sits in the El Rio strait, hemmed by land on both sides: Isla de Lobos fills the sector from the NE round through E to SE only a few hundred metres away, and the Corralejo coast and dunes of Fuerteventura block the S through SW to W, so those directions are effectively shut out from any open-sea swell. The one genuine exposure window is up the channel to the NW-WNW, where the strait opens toward the passage between the islands and the open Atlantic — the NW-WNW-NNW sector is where the dominant NW Atlantic groundswell and NE-trade windsea leak in and where surface chop builds. Even so, the far shelter of Lanzarote to the north and the two islands' bulk keep the site relatively protected, and the day-to-day water movement here is driven far more by the strong tidal current running through the strait than by open-ocean swell.