12th May 09
****AFTERNOON SURF UP-DATE****
Hi Folks and thanks for waiting around for the news on todays surfing and weather conditions straight from your favourite surfing holiday island of Bali. And I gotta say that todays massive 36 photo dump is our personal best, so make sure you cruise through the whole lot.
Okey dokey, this mornings surf check on the Outer Reefs here in laid back old Tuban was showing wave height breaking in the 2-3ft range between Kuta Reef and Airport Left. And with the early morning Low tide Middle Reef was the only viable option for a paddle, and there were few nice little waves and a few surfers out there enjoying them. But… the boys here at Home Base wanted more. So we loaded up the rental and hit the highway South for Uluwatu, searching for more size and power for their surfing dollar.
Arriving to a full car park around 9.00am and a tide quickly filling in for a midday High Tide of 2.6mtrs. Wave height down at Ulu as expected was bigger than the Outer Reefs and hitting the Main Peak and Temple sections in the 3-4ft+ sector. There was already around 70 surfers spread out between the two different sections and more getting ready to hit it. We hung out till the rain started around 1.30pm but I rackon the Racetrack would have been smoking as the tide got closer to the sunset Low tide.
Surfing conditions were kinda weird today, with the wind varying out of the NW-W-SSE and never really blowing true of-shore. But all the same as ya’s can see in these photos it was still pretty clean.
Driving home past Padang Padang and Impossible’s there wasn’t much happening with only a mushy looking 1-2 footer floping onto Impossible’s. But something was going on for sure cause there were at least 30 Euro type learners sitting on the very top end of the reef in the channel between Padang Padang and Impossible’s. Padang Padang wasn’t breaking.
Our daily sms surf report from the G-land Surf Camp was calling a solid 6 foot swell coming out of the West hiting Kong’s and the top end of Money Tree’s with only 3 surfers in the water at 7.00am.
Weather wise here in Bali today it’s been terrible (from a photographers point of view). The day started off ok with a mainly blue sky, but by the time we got down to Uluwatu things were changing. The sky started to get dull and cloudy and we could see that Kuta was already getting blanketed with rain by 11.00am. Then around 1.30pm the rain hit Uluwatu and the wind swung back to the North. Right now at 5.15pm it’s still rainging here in Tuban.
Ok crew that’s about all I’m good for today, and tomorrow I’m going surfing as a birthday present to me. And after that who knows……..
See ya’s again back here soon on the one and only original Bali surf report (since ’99)
Slim
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