Above the lip Floater Big Hack Cutback Kite\’s Kiteboarders Cutback and air Carve Kite Windsurfer For ten years now I have been cursing that wind. Yeah, year after year, at any time of the year it can strike. I’ve called it the “devil wind” and “the breath of Satan” more times than I care to [...]

Trussed up in several millimetres of rubber, battling cold onshore winds for mushy one foot waves, it’s no wonder that we West Aussies’ dreams turn north to the balmy waters of Bali. In our fantasies, we’re stroking manfully into solid overhead barrels while photographers tread water in the channel, and half naked girls cheer and [...]

Hey Dude! Man, had the busiest and most fucked up week here! How’s things going over there? How Amanda going? Have you got a photo you can send so I can see her. First of all I headed over to Nua Lembogan for the Full Moon party and the waves were pumping and there is [...]

The arrivals lounge at Padang airport is not really a lounge. It is more like a non-air conditioned shed which could never fit a planeload of people in. But this is Indonesia and it is remarkable how many people can fit into a confined space in this country. There are a couple of immigration officials [...]

As it goes, at the start of any story, I will introduce myself. My name is Dave Scard, most of the crew know me as “Scardy”. I have just come down with a serious illness, one that only surf doctors can diagnose. It’s called “post G-land depression.” Lets just hope that the Australian Social Securities [...]

Waiting for the tide to change can be an exhausting pastime. You sit there thinking `Yep, that piece of coral has definatley gone now. The tides come up heaps’ only to see the dumb thing it re-appear. Yes, very frustrating stuff. Graham, Joe and I had been sitting Nyomans warung for a hour and a [...]

As our trip progressed, we finally started figuring out the lay of the land. Our home base on Bali for the time being was the city of Kuta, a bustling hub of surfers, tourists, Javanese hawkers selling gasoline in perfume bottles, all night parties with crappy musick, narrow crowded streets, scab-covered dogs, instant gratification, cheap [...]

My first trip to Bali in June 1999 was an intense learning experience. It didn’t necessarily have to be that way but my friend Dave told my other friend the wrong time to get us at the airport so we didn’t have the luxury of a ride and a hotel waiting for us. Accounts vary, [...]

First of all would like to congratulate you on an great web site, definitely worth reading if you about to go or just been to Indo. I have just arrived back from a quick 3 weeker. Had an awesome time!! Got some sick surf all over Bali, got stranded on a boat off Lombok and [...]

There was no denying it, “The General” had a drinking problem. To be honest we all had a drinking problem back then in the early eighties, and you could probably say we also showed all the traits of long term substance abuse and too many years living in the tropics. When it came to drinking [...]

(quite a lot of this was written under the influence of something, alcohol, barrel fever etc so the views and opinions expressed were mine at the time and not necessarily mine now) I write this now in retrospect sitting at a computer desk 3 storeys up in the CBD of surf less Bris-vegas. Obviously my [...]

Nias Nias Nias Nias Nias June 1 1988 Sydney Airport international departures: That’d be right, trust him to stuff the whole thing up, I thought to myself. I had been waiting for eight months for this day and he doesn’t show up on time. He was my mate Mark and we were heading to Indo [...]

It took three attempts before making it through the 3ft breakers just after leaving behind the fish flavoured air of Grajagan village in our boat, headed for ‘THE’ left. We knew from trusty reports we’d be hitting swell when we arrived at our temporary jungle home. The boat trip took place on a magically mirrored [...]

The players in this story are: Peter “I’m not scared of BB guns” Cox; Marcus “I feel sick today” Zeltzer; Daniel “I’m going back to bed” Lamrock. Plus our Seppo mates Anthony, Greg, Sean and Angela. The night started off at Jim’s place, where we were treated to a feast of collosal proportions courtesy of [...]

Grajagan Speedies Hey Jim, It sure was nice meeting you at Sarni’s. She’s pretty cool, huh? I thought you might get a laugh out of the story of my first day in Bali. This was quite a while ago, but the memory is still vivid. My friend Gerry Green and I landed in Denpasar and [...]

Desert Point Sun up Day 1- Bali We were all amped to the max as we touched down at Denpasar looking forward to a couple of weeks of good waves and a welcome rest from the madness back in Oz. I had my two sons Dane and Ben M and their schoolmate Trent with me [...]

Buffaloes Kids Rights Lombok Rights Lombok Right Handers Well guys/girls we all know quite well the island of Lombok, which is only around 50 odd miles east of Bali, has been undergoing a bit of turmoil from time to time. Apart from reading about incidents and actual happenings I didn’t know what the real situation [...]

Kim Sunset Shot Beautiful Left Kim Berry A collection of 4 Aussies and a Kiwi got together at short notice to sample some of the waves on offer in the Lombok / Sumbawa area, living aboard the traditional style 60 foot boat Ria Wisata. Being towards the end of the wet season we knew that [...]