G-LAND was wet again early this morning from a decent dump of rain last night. Up until this point in time, the season has been different than what's considered to be normal. Not many solid swells so far, winds took a long time to settle into dry-season trades (which thankfully it's been blowing real nice), not too many people here in June, July, and August (minus this last full moon which was overbooked), on and on. My point here is that there's one thing that's out of normal that's really nice and it's been the clean, early morning conditions. So hopefully that's what's happening here early tomorrow.
The beginnings of a new swell arrived late in the afternoon today. Early-day conditions were small...head high...but real fun. Not too many people surfing, maybe because the swell forecast predicting an early-day arrival wasn't materializing. And so they waited for its sign. My midday Inside Launching Pad session was shared with about 6 other people. Real clean and a few little tubes coming through. Money Trees had a few racertracks...like yesterday, but the little pack of 15 on it wasn't enticing.
By about 4:00, the new swell started to show it's presence and so did all the people waiting for it. Kongs through Money Trees was working. I was diving off the Ledge and so that's what I saw the most of and it was nice. A little overhead and some hollow waves lining up for about 100+ yards. Not so long of a wave for here, but still very nice. Seems like tomorrow can be quality. WE WILL SEE!!!
--MICHAEL
