3rd consecutive day of quality G-Land Surf. Backed-off just a bit from yesterday, but “only a bit.” Every day that passes makes me more appreciative for the conditions that we’re getting. There will be that day…probably soon…where I’ll commit to the thought “yeah, the season has switched.” It’s getting hotter, more humid, a few light rains at night, more atmospheric moisture hanging above Grajagan Bay, the monsoon season started off the Philippines, BUT… the offshores are still happening. And that needs to change so I can easily “commit to that thought!”
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November 13th 2009
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
November 12th 2009
Thursday, November 12th, 2009IT WAS A DAY NOT TO MISS if you were here at G-Land. Fortunately, all the guests got to surf. I didn’t once again. But… fortunate for me, I’m not bummed by it either… just truly stoked for the guests. They got that gem of a day…November 12th 2009 will be remembered by several.
I’ll have to trust the others about (more…)
November 7th 2009
Saturday, November 7th, 2009These early morning low-tides have really set up the later part of the day to only get better. A little more swell energy showed up today at G-Land…contra to what the forecast had predicted. And this is always a good reminder not to get overly reliant on the swell models. Money Trees was breaking more down-the-line than yesterday morning, but Kongs is and has been the staple on these retracting swell conditions. Still, it was a nice size…about 5 to 8 foot on the face at midday and still offshore all day!
By the late afternoon, Moneys rarely had sets, but no one sitting down there either. I was watching it from Kongs, hoping to get lured down there and enjoy it alone. Kongs was quality fun, but it wasn’t that consistent (more…)
November 6th 2009
Saturday, November 7th, 2009Over time, everyone develops their own reliable line-up markers at G-Land and I visited two old, almost forgotten friends… gebang kembar. It’s a such a fun peak that is undoubtedly reliable. I didn’t surf until 3 today…looked at it a few times earlier on, but took one of those long, unexpected midday sleeps again. And the rest was so well used up by the non-stop wave riding that transpired from my first wave until after sunset. Thinking back, my first wave was amazingly long. “That wave went for so long” kept resonating in my thoughts on the 15-minute paddle back up. WOW!!!
November 5th 2009
Friday, November 6th, 20090.0 meter tide at sunrise and with the decrease in swell, I could only see 1 foot of the 2 feet faces. With small swell and low low-tides, there is definitely a reason for hope. When there’s size on a 0.0, noticing how long surfers can disappear from view on their below-sea-level bottom turn is a good indicator of how quick you can get pushed up onto the reef.
By the reach of a 1.0 meter tide, both the offshores and surf started to rise up. So I planned my surf to ride off the crowning 2.0 meter high and into Happy Hour! It was few and far in between sets, but same for the number of people out in the surf.
G-Land was about 3 to 5 feet on the face and if you were the chosen one, that rare overhead wave came straight to your smiling face. Clean and (more…)
November 3rd 2009
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Upon the sun’s touch of the horizon line, all the laughter, story-telling, dancing, and play-fighting solidified my belief that everyone main-lined enough Plengkung panacea to leave this place filled with content. And all the first-timers, unknowingly, are hosting a newly sown seed which will later fruit into a delicious “I NEED to go back to G-Land!”
For today’s report, you can read yesterday’s thoughts and simply change NONE to ALMOST NONE…. 10-footers to 12-footers… deep to (more…)
November 1st 2009
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Harry and Jeanette together...forever...again
It’s nice that I can write the word OFFSHORE and it not reflect my hope for another day. The “dry-season” trades blew across the Blambangan Peninsula at their common time of 10 o’clock. G-Land was a fun 4 to 6 foot (faces) with a few, but rare 8 footers. Most of the action was happening in the lower Kongs/upper Moneys reef sections. That little extra south in the wind created too much surface chop for upper Kongs and there wasn’t enough energy and direction to get further down reef.
Those days that G-Land is far from hollow…like today… (more…)
October 31st 2009
Sunday, November 1st, 2009It’s slowly happening and I’m slowly becoming more excited about it. For Bobby, it’s not the best thing to have a thinning guest-list, but I’m sure he’s beyond stressing about this considering it happens every year at this time. We’re down to 4 tables at dinner time. Raymond is done for the season and Joyo needs fewer tables than us. Somehow, deep within me I know you’re not buying airline tickets, so I’m comfortable divulging this.
I hope to be writing a story about an epic G-Land day. Won’t be from today. In fact, I hope this “the westerly wind-flow never came” phrase won’t be (more…)
October 30th 2009
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
eatable delectables
looking out from within
Some morning surf checks are pretty evident that the day is not meant to be spent surfing. There was size, not large, but enough to unload some loud one’s on the reef. There’s something about the sky here, more about the moisture content in the local atmosphere that seems to be a tell-tale of how the day may be. G-Land was 3 to 4 foot again but the westerly wind-flow never came. Walled-up lumps with many bumps make the G-Land Surf a true challenge in projecting long-distances with control and fluidity. (more…)
October 27th 2009
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Not too much to write about today BECAUSE it was a day to do mainly one thing here at G-Land…. RIDE a SURFBOARD on WAVES. I can throw in a few other activities such as; ate quality food, fixed a few dings, stretched, but I don’t want to yank details out of them.
Surfed some quality 6 to 8 foot-faced Fang. I saw some nice barrels from both perspectives and they were equally enjoyable. My goodness there (more…)
