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Friday, May 7th, 2010
G-Land was once again…another beautiful day. The surf for the past 4 days has been the same. Clean, offshore conditions with pretty respectful surfer’s, 6-10 foot faces, and barrels. There really hasn’t been too much performance surfing going on at Money Trees or Speedies (naturally), just
lot’s of barrel riding.
Kong’s has been breaking everyday, which I realize I left it out of my last post. And the guests have been really enjoying the somewhat solitary feeling up there and getting those long, carvable walls that make Kongs what it is. But down the reef has really been the place to be in my opinion.
Lower Money’s had some great waves. I saw some impressively, long tubes peeling off and eventually got drawn up there a couple of times. BUT, I was always making my way back down the reef in hopes getting a nice one. Today is the 4th day of waves at Inside Launching Pad and Speedies and that is a beautiful thing. Can’t stop feeling appreciative that we’re getting these
conditions after a good, long wait for surf.
–MICHAEL
Tags: barrels, beautiful, G-Land, guests, Kongs, Money Trees, offshore, reef, Speedies, surf, surfers, tubes, waves
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
G-Land recieved a very nice swell bump today. Definitely the best day since my arrival a couple of weeks ago and the wind stayed pretty calm almost all day minus a two hour blast from 2:00 until 4:00. It was about as good as it can be without the offshore. Easy 10 foot faces on the sets and with more power than the other days. The forecast for tomorrow is showing the same!!!
Two sessions today and I’m pretty thoroughly spent. Started out at the Fang and ended up getting a few nice waves through Speedies. There would have been some amazing barrels with the angin darat (land wind=offshore) but it was still really enjoyable to ride some waves in the faster flowing water.
The second session in the later afternoon was at Money Trees and I’m still feeling amazed that I got to surf it alone for the last hour and half. Newcastle Neil was solo up at the Ledge and giving me an enjoyable show to watch in between the Money’s sets. We both sat through the bad winds and it was absolutely worth it. The others surfers…and that’s not many…didn’t wait it out. But hopefully they can get some redemption tomorrow.
A beautiful day here at G-Land.
–MICHAEL
Tags: forecast, G-Land, Money Trees, offshore, power, sets, Speedies, surf, surfers, swell, wind
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
G-Land woke me up this morning with the beautiful sound of a new swell. It was the first time since I arrived that my walk up to the beach was overly exciting. I wish I didn’t have to write this, but from early morning on through sunset, the wind was the only element out of sync for a high quality day to happen at G-Land.
G-Land could have been epic. Full moon, strong south swell about 205 degrees, and very few surfers in the jungle. I watched Speedies draw the lumped up swell through the high tide, the Ledge receive some explosive peaks at the tides opposite end, Money Trees handle everything, and about 5 Bombora sets break in the later afternoon. It was difficult to see everything have the potential to be working all in one day, but IT DIDN’T. And that was because one element, the proper wind, was missing.
By 4:30, a powerful storm front came across Grajagan Bay and brought with it a booming thunderstorm and dropped a solid amount of rain. It was refreshing to sit under the 2 new bale’s out front and watch, feel, and smell the storm go passed us.
Hoping for a more in sync day tomorrow.
Until then….MICHAEL
Tags: beach, beautiful, epic, full moon, G-Land, grajagan bay, jungle, Money Trees, peaks, Speedies, surfers, swell, The Ledge, tides, wind
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
I have to give credit to the organization… pretty sure it’s NOAA/NCEP’s OMB and affiliates… that exists by collecting data and processing that information into a usable model. Anything up to 2 days out seems to be fairly accurate, beyond that and too many events can happen to change the course of a surfer’s hope.
By noon, sets started to break at Kongs and any stresses from not surfing the past couple of days faded away. G-Land was (more…)
Tags: barrels, beautiful, Bobby's G-Land Surf Camp, carvable, energy, fan palms, forecast, G-Land, guests, hope, Kongs, model, offshores, prediction, season, surfers, surfing, swell
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
0.0 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…)
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