G-Land Surf was still solid, it sounded big all night, and as I write this at 10:30pm at night it is still loud. In saying that, it was smaller than yesterday, however still solid 8ft+ sets all day. The wind got a little better than yesterday but still not a straight offshore that it really needed. Going off the internet charts we were all expecting it to be rattling down Speed reef but it was for the most part lucky to even throw a decent Speedies barrel. I mean, there was some amazing waves here and there in the mix but many of the waves were not linking well into Speedies or even giving a good Speedies section.
The crowd was hectic. I was first out and enjoyed 30 or so mins of very little people, then it seemed like within 5 minutes there was 50+ guys, and then some. Launching Pads packed out, Speedies heaps of crew with not many waves in there to even catch. And this crowd was including a lot of sponsored crew and G-Land veterans and surf guides etc, so it was real difficult to get a wave during the high tide.
Probably was more fun to just watch, which I spent half the time doing from our overland boat that was getting used to shoot photo's from an elevated position in the line-up. Stand-outs today included Twiggy the Zaffa big wave charger, getting a big Pad wave into a sick speedies barrel. Eddy 'The Predator' Blackwell who got spat out of a filthy one. And of course other people that scored 'that wave'.
Tigertracks was fun right through the high tide apparently. 3ft, and lots of fun rippable waves.
Before the hectic crowd turned up I managed to snag a few lil tubes
Kainoa in a suck-below-sea-level Speedies wave. He got 2 shacks on this and came out
Big Man Big Wipeout. My friend from home Dawson Tamati took this big drop but fell off the bottom. Almost dislocated his hip. He's 95kg and thats a 7'2 board. All small in comparison to a Launching Pad Wave
Shannon from Tasmania scoring an early in the session bomb through Speedies
