G-LAND ... I'm sitting here giving some good thought to the season so far past and gone and i can't come up with another time so far this season that the swell has dropped down this small for this long. By the end of today, even though we did get a little pulse of new swell wrapping around the point, today marks the 4th day straight of small(ish) waves. 4 days isn't so bad really, but just recognizing that it happened.
We've been surfing pretty much Fan Palm, Twin Palms, and so lucky one's getting really fun Tigertracks cause the swells been hanging around the true SW (225) direction. Today had some head high plus sets and really clean. The winds have been blowing STRONG offshore and i've been using the stand-up everyday now. Ultra clear water and stoked on the views down into the fishbowl. I having been seeing anything out of the ordinary, but sometimes i get lucky enough to see a spotted eagle ray flying through the sea or a dugong lulling around in the shallows. But i did see a massive olive-ridley turtle, that's not the one we see out here about 95% of the time, that would be the hawksbill. It had a head on it about the size of a small watermelon and just pretty amazing to see how gigantic it was. Tough to say how much it really weighed but it had to have been at least 350 pounds.
--MICHAEL
