G-LAND mania came to an end. Today started out with the change-over of guests and it was interesting to see how many people chased this last forecasted swell over here. The last transport day brought in 45 new guests and took back 9, fully loading up the camp with strong hopes to surf quality Launching Pad/Speedies. The forecasted numbers (swell) backed up there hopes...well...it really just fueled their hopes. Today we took 38 guests back to Bali, many of them which were part of the 45 guests that just came in the trip before. We did get some beautiful waves from this past swell, but it didn't fill up the expectations of the...well...the one's with expectations since Speedies never really broke.
The surf today was mainly focusing on the upper parts of the reef. Money Trees did have a few well-shaped, 6 foot+ face sets peeling off, but the form most of the time was poor... really fast and plenty of sections and very small most of the time. Fan Palms up through Kongs were the spots. Early on the wind was sideshore, coming out of the S a little too much, but once more E got into it by around noon, the faces cleaned up and some real nice walls were setting up. With a fading swell, sets were ranging from 4 foot to 8 foot faces (on the rare one's) which is a really fun size for there.
The internet was down yesterday (i'm writing this on the 27th) so to back up a thought about chasing swell forecasts with something that happened this morning...two guests who just came in decided to leave right away since the forecast looked really poor. I'm not sure why they came then, but that's what it was. And since Jarred was taking care of the forecasts and the internet being down, I really couldn't say anything knowledgeable about the forecast, just that you shouldn't put too much belief in it, especially when it comes to this spot. And so they left on Joyo's boat and bang, a nice pulse is coming through right now with 8-10 foot faces running through lower Money Trees and starting to fill into Speedies with the rising tide!!!
--MICHAEL
