Find Sebastian Inlet on Google Maps in southeast Florida. Basically much of the Florida coast is barrier islands, and the intracoastal waterway lies between the islands and the mainland. It's a mile or so wide and many miles long, with lots of tidal currents and eddies, mangroves everywhere along the sides, small dredge islands, docks, and the tide shooting out (or in) through the inlet itself.

Sebastian Inlet State Park is rideable in any wind direction because the ocean beach faces more or less east and on the inside there's a sort of finger that extends west out into the intracoastal. If there's an easterly component, you can ride on the ocean side, and if it's westerly you can ride on one side of the finger or the other.

It was blowing out of the northwest, and normally I'd ride on the north side of the spur, but the locals were there and they had a jet ski to pick up anybody who had a major problem, so I rode on the south side with them. I had a pretty major gear problem (broke a line, I think; this was years ago, I can't remember the exact issue) and was able to stand up, but the board got away from me. After the jet ski picked me up and we took care of the kite, we rode around for a while looking for the board, but never found it; it may have gone out the inlet on the tide.