Picchi di Pablo

Sitting off Punta Bianca on the east side of the Calamita peninsula, outside the Porto Azzurro gulf, the site faces the open Tyrrhenian from northeast through east to southeast and takes the full fetch from those bearings — above all the Scirocco, the SE wind that builds the biggest seas here. To the west and southwest the bulk of the Calamita peninsula and the Elba landmass stand in the way, so the Libeccio (SW) is heavily shadowed and the landward W-NW sectors are effectively blocked; only the southerly Ostro adds any swell from that flank. Conditions are generally calm in settled summer weather but deteriorate quickly in any easterly-to-southeasterly blow, and the dive should be cancelled in a Scirocco.