After 8 days straight of 6ft+ waves, G-Land surf had me feeling totally zapped this morning. Some sets still in the 4ft range were coming through, but a onshore breeze lasting until 11am meant that by the time it went offshore the swell also dropped to about 3ft.
G-Land Bobby’s Surf Camp had a changeover day today, and one of the new guests tells me he has only been surfing for 3 weeks! So I certainly didn’t want to send him out the front, instead I set up a truck ride for him down to Tigertracks. Myself only having surfed this place once a few years ago, I decided to come for a ride and bring my 6ft small wave board and get in a mellow backhand surf.
The waves at Tigertracks were only 1-2ft, however with a nice high tide, there was plenty of water and the waves were soft and easy and long rides. Said guest ended up having a ball, getting a few nice rides. I enjoyed going right for the first time in 2 months, and some other guests who came along enjoyed themselves too. One young 13 year old boy Nick had fun, while his Dad Bernie got in a bit of exercise also. Rodrigo & Monica whom are here on their 2nd wedding anniversary enjoyed the split peak situation, and Monica was getting some super long rides all the way to the beach. Their friend Yumiko also got lots of nice rides on her longboard.
G-Land has a reputation of being a super gnarly advanced-only surfing location, but really there is other options nearby that will have small fun waves, especially when timed with the high tides.
Tags: backhand, fun, G-Land, G-Land Bobby's Surf Camp, g-land surf, longboard, mellow surf, small wave, Tigertracks
Jer!
aloha from kauai! miss you guys already! stoked to hear you guys are scoring as the “real” season kicks in! i was just getting warmed up when we had to leave…only to return to the N.hemi where we have no waves for 5-mo! WAAAAAAAA! Already saving up for next May…maybe whole mo. @ bobby’s?
You guys made the trip for us (me/mitch/jackson) & I know that I’m coming back.. just gotta save up the $$$$. Busy w/ work & life-changes here on Kauai.
Missing Java already! Stay well Kiwi-brother…have a great season, get shacked, have a bintang for me (& watch the 14 yr old Javanese school girls!)
Cheers Mate! & Aloha nui loa!
~jason (aka, “Monkey Claw”)
Hey Jason!
Thanks for your message. Yeah waves have been pumping the past couple of weeks as you can read! bummer for you that its gonna be real small for awhile… you’ll have to crank out some pushups and that will help you have the splayed out style hands man!! hahaha. And for sure 1 month at Bobby’s will be an awesome holiday and you’d get the place more wired and increase ya tube time plus score more good swells..
Hey those boards i bought off Mitch certainly have been Mitchin! I have only surf the 7′8 but about 10 times, and that thing has had so much tube time its crazy, such a sick board, goes real fast in the tube and sits real well in the wave. And i can do a few nice turns on it. I gotta email him and let him know some time.
Well i’m off to Bali at the end of the month going to have my first break from g-land in 2 months! Should be fun…
Catch ya later bro,
Jarred