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Shacks is a nice beach with a couple of holiday “houses” along the beachfront, a narrow stretch of sand and a – at least in the 90ies very alive – reef. That reef builds a more or less flat platform about 50 meters out to the sea. Then it drops more or less vertical for at least 60 meters therefor building an abrupt step. Swell is coming out of the before mentioned very deep trench unhindered and hits that step in full force. The break holds large swells and forms them into long rights. The wave starts breaking in front of a coral head sticking its face out of the ocean surface, passes a less shallow part of the reef that works as a channel as long as the waves do not pass two meters of height and then follows the bend of the reef and the coastline to a part of the beach that almost forms a little bay.
Theoretically the reef platform in front of the beach makes getting out with a windsurfer easier as the relatively calm waters between the beach and reef ledge allow you to gain speed before you pass the breaking waves.
In reality there is a narrow part of about 5 meters width at the beach where you can go out without having to walk across the urchin infested rocks. Here you can walk in with your gear and waterstart. But about 10 meters out to the ocean the reef gets too shallow. There is a little pass to the left, so you get out, waterstart and then immediately have to sail a bit downwind. But not too much, as the wind gets blocked soon once you get a bit too far downwind and there is a strong current pulling down the beach too.
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