Oh brings back so many memories. Used to work at a place just above the harbor, could see down through a gap in the fence if it was breaking beyond the big rock to the right of the breakwater small boat anchor side. Nobody would surf there but me. Loved that place. K-patch and S-Road on weekends. Going to sleep in church which was a short walk from Fitzroy at the time, waking up and Pastor Rafferty would be looking straight at me haha. You got me reminiscing again first time I went there I was 16 and remember just past Stratford seeing the mountain for the first time 1972. I was so in awe of the mountain seeing it all the way there on the drive into town in my little Thames van.
No matter how good you've seen G-Land, someone has seen it better. That ledge that pops up under the wave in this video looks super dangerous! It looks like there were 2 swells running at the same time?
Your right! I probably have seen it better since this day... although this day was still amazing. No it was only one pure 18 second ground swell (was flat the day before), but the tide was only around a 2meter as it was late season, so the intensity of the swell was pulling so much water off the reef at Speedies that a lot of the Launching Pad waves weren't cleaning connecting up with Speedies
@@shawndugan6052 might have been 3m? The thing is not all 3m swells are the same - it depends on what's going on out to sea with wind swells and where high pressure systems are positioned too...
Thanks! This was filmed with the GoPro1, they didn't come with floaty backdoors. Even with GoPro2 I haven't used the floaty thing either. I used the wrist mount... so the back of the camera was hard against the top of my wrist... awkward to get the angle right, but the easiest I find for paddling around and catching waves & standing up without it being too much of a nuisance
