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Full disclosure: it's been hard to keep up with the Championship Tour while the surf here has been so good!

Today I just told our guests how lucky they've been with their stay with respect to the surf and the weather...but am I kidding myself?! I feel that it's every month that I say, "oh yes June (insert any month) seems to be a good one for waves". Is there any month that is not good for waves here?!!

I'm a huge fan of the longer summer days when a double surf session is the norm rather than the bonus. Yesterday I got three surfs! It was Saturday after all. You'd wonder when do we get a chance to get anything else done!

And that's one reason why I've been missing out on the CT stops - The other reason is that G-land is such a darn perfect wave that it became monotonous to see pro after pro perform every trick in their repertoire on the perfect canvas that is G-Land.

El Salvador Surf City is more to my watchlist taste and I did put in my due viewing time this stop (it helped that it was usually running after dinner our time) - and I think it went hand in hand with the great waves I've been scoring. Nothing like a bit of pro surfing to get you psyched up! A certain surfer once said "If you can perform it in your dreams, then you can do it in reality!" seriously, muscle memory can be trained while sleeping!! Ive been dreaming of Filipe's "easy peasy" full rotations  (both directions) and Carissa's perfect layback snaps - I have a lot more dreaming to do, but doing in the right direction ;)

Wave selection and positioning came into play again in El Salvador and for me that's a huge interest factor for watching how the pro's do it. There's got to be more than luck in Stef Gilmore seeming to land all the best set waves in her heats.

I would have been happy for any of the quarter finalists to take the prize, but particularly Filipe, who despite wearing the Yellow Jersey, always seems to make the finals and lose by a hair. He certainly seems to be having the most fun out there.

Still, it's great to see Griffin (always a fun surfer to watch) take away another win, showing that there's plenty of fresh blood to contend with among the younger, newer tour surfers.

Delighted too to see Caroline Marks in the semis - there's another young star (and very serious sportsperson) in the making, and happy to see her get recognition for her beyond her years skill.

Still and all, Stef really did take it away with gusto and nobody can deny that. Champ well deserved.

And now, back to dreaming and back to my backyard....