G-Land had a thick mist over the line-up for the first few hours of the morning, and while it sounded big and loud, I could not quite tell. Once the fog lifted mid morning I realised it was perhaps the biggest swell I've seen here since 2007! Too big for here today really. It was washing through, the ocean was moving sideways across the reef, huge swells unloading on the bombie. I heard the Rip Curl Padang Padang International Invite comp ran today in 6-8ft pumping waves. Jamie O'Brien won.
G-Land Bobby's Surf Camp guests mostly chose to go surf 20/20's, it was overhead on the sets down there, and the right hander had a few fun ones too. Our camp photographer John Hepler parked his boat in the channel and shot some pics of people hotdogging the clean 3ft waves. I surfed the righthander down there for my first time ever, it was short but fun.
At 4pm I paddled out the main break, had a surprisingly easy paddle out the keyhole, and joined a handful of other hopeful punters in the G-Land Surf. Money Trees was 6-10ft, quite a bit of water moving, I took out my 7'8 which helped in the current. Caught a few waves, one wave was a keeper, with a nice deep double barrel.
