tube

August 27th 2010

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

G-LAND delivered us a special present.  I wrote about it at the end of my last report and it continued on through the day.   With plenty of water on the high tide…upper Speedies had a few, really fun waves coming through.  8 foot faces with nice light offshore and you can imagine how it was…crisp, clean faces with fun tube sections.

Money Trees on up through Fan Palms was breaking more consistently and pulling in a bit more size…8-10 foot faces on the sets and there were some nice 4-5 waves sets coming in.  A few tubes peeling off,  but mostly just nice clean walls to carve on or do whatever feels right.

Puma came back into camp and everyone has been asking where he was.  His wife and son were sick and so, he was gone for a good reason.  But they’re on the right road to healing up.  It’s great to have him here…his presence cannot go unnoticed.

–MICHAEL

July 26th 2010

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

G-Land produced some quality waves today… Sure I’ve seen it better, but with 4-5ft waves rifling down the Money Tree reef and just enough trade wind to keep it clean, there was definitely some good waves. I talked myself out of going out right until dead low tide, and ended up getting lucky on the Ledge with my first G-Land shack session of the season. Captured them all on a GoPro camera mounted on my surfboard, so by the end of the season I should have a nice lil video to post up on our website documenting the G-Land tube!

Hawaiian lad Asher got a screaming good tube on the morning session, while his girlfriend had a fun session at Tigertracks along with the Kiwi girls and a few Aussie chaps. The water temp was quite nice all round, I got to hot in my spring suit this afternoon, so that was a pleasant surprise. Although I have no qualms about wearing wetsuit in warm water here, as when the s#*t hits the fan and I end up on the reef, its great to have that wetsuit for some body armour.

Tonight is Gandrung full moon dance party. It was supposed to be on the beach but there was a light shower upon dusk, so its been moved into the restaurant just to be safe. Should be some good dancing going on tonight, as my fellow Kiwi crew are on the vodka’s and no doubt they’ll be priming me up on the Russian drink to get me to reveal my trademark Gandrung dance moves.

G-Land on April 29th 2010

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

G-Land is still keeping on this new trend.  The winds are definitely better than they have been earlier in the month.  Most mornings are starting out with a light N wind and swinging through the W, ultimately going SSE.  Anything with a little bit of E in it is nice.

Surf today was still focusing up at Kongs more than anywhere else.  The swell models predicted a 202 degree swell, but it didn’t seem to be coming from that direction since nothing was really breaking down the reef.  The scenario at Kongs was great.  Some extremely long waves peeling through it’s many peaks.  The few wide one’s that came in were easily worth the extra wait.  Maybe something like 300 yards travelled…beautiful.  Waves were up to 10 faces on the nice sets, but more like 6 foot on the common ones.  Clean faces.  Late afternoon low-tide had some nice sets on the Ledge and if you were lucky to get that one…well…riding the tube always feels nice.

Full moon party last night was real good fun.  Lot’s of people from the other camps showed up and counting the 71 guests already here at Bobby’s, I’d say the headcount was something like 110+ bulehs plus the locals hanging out too.  Puma put on a show for the first dance and we all tried to follow.  The party went on till midnight and there were a few Aussie left wide-eyed through the night.

–MICHAEL