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G-LAND …   How is it when you first sight the ocean in the AM and it’s brightly lit with the warm tones of low-angle light, all shades of blues and greens radiating from the sea, deep blues in the sky contrasted by vivid white clouds hanging over the volcanoes, and offshore’s ripping water off the [...]

G-LAND …   “yeah bro, go!!!!”   no idea how many times i said that today, but it was a lot.  We came back into our normal climactic patterns, that being offshores clocking in for the day right around 9 AM.  And it was a smooth, unvaried wind that blew from the better direction all day long.  [...]

G-LAND …   That forecasted swell was running the reef at dawn.  A new swell and the hopes of good winds unfortunately didn’t live long at all this morning, getting smashed pretty quickly by that cool onshore flow.   By about 7:30, the glassy waters started to churn up some bumps and by 9 o’clock, it was [...]