SubscribeSea Turtles at Kuta Beach will have a brighter future
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Worldwide, six of seven species of sea turtles that swim the world’s oceans are threatened or endangered largely at the hand of humans. Sadly they also face many dangers as they travel the seas from accidental capture, poaching and the loss of nesting sites due to coastal development and beach pollution.
2009 Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championship Awards Night Celebration at Kuta, Bali
Friday, November 27th, 2009
November 2009, Kuta-Bali: The 2009 Coca-Cola ISC Tour capped off its best season ever with a year-end Awards Presentation Night at the Discovery Kartika Hotel Ballroom in Kuta on Saturday night November 14th, crowning Indonesia’s new surfing champions in 6 divisions, and recognizing the contributions of its sponsors and supporters while providing food and drink for the hundreds of surf industry and media invitees, and finishing it off by rocking out with the live band Pandora.
Full Day of Surfing Action at Kuta Beach – Groms and Women Finalists Decided at Rip Curl Surf And Music Festival 2009
Monday, October 26th, 2009
24 October 2009, Kuta-Bali: A full day of surfing action on Kuta Beach at the Rip Curl Surf And Music Festival today saw the GromSearch finalists and Women’s Division finalists decided as well as two rounds of the Men’s Open Division completed before the sun went down on Bali’s most popular beach. The morning’s competition [...]
Kuta Reef to Uluwatu, 3rd October ’09
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
3rd Oct 09 ****MORNING SURF UP-DATE**** Hello surfers and welcome back to the baliwaves.com for todays news on surfing and weather conditions here on the happy little holiday island of Bali. Todays photos are once again courtesy from our good friends down at Uluwatu, Hendra Surf Photography. This mornings surf recon on the Outer reefs [...]
Kuta Reef to Airport Left, 3rd September ’09
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
3rd Sept o9 ****EVENING SURF UP-DATE**** Hello folks and thanks for stopping by to see whats been happening surf and weather wise here on the happy little surfing holiday island of Bali. Well not too much today, this mornings 6.30am surf check on the Outer Reefs was only showing wave height to be lapping onto [...]
Sandi Slamet Wins Crown in Quiksilver King of the Groms Final at Kuta Beach Bali
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
13 July 2009, Kuta-Bali: 16 year old Sandi Slamet from Cimaja-West Java won Quiksilver’s King of the Groms 2009 yesterday at Halfways-Kuta Beach, battling it out in a riveting 30 minute final against 12 year old Jeren from Canggu and coming back to the beach the ecstatic winner of the Crown and an all expense [...]
Mixed Bag Nab Quarterfinal Berths on Day 3 of Quiksilver King of the Groms at Kuta Beach
Monday, July 13th, 2009
11 July 2009, Kuta-Bali: Day 3 of the Quiksilver King of the Grom at Kuta Beach saw a mixed bag of top, middle and low seeded groms gaining quarterfinal berths for tomorrows final day of competition after battling it out in Rounds 3 and 4. The surfing conditions were more challenging today with smaller and [...]
Grom’s Tear It Up on Day 2 of Quiksilver King of the Groms at Kuta Beach
Monday, July 13th, 2009
10 July 2009, Kuta-Bali: The level of surfing measurably increased on Day 2 at the Quiksilver King of the Groms today at Kuta Beach during Rounds 1 and 2, due to the presence of seeded groms now competing as well as the slight drop in wave size that created much cleaner conditions for the day’s [...]
Trial Rounds Completed on Day 1 of Quiksilver King of the Groms at Kuta Beach
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
9 July 2009, Kuta-Bali: The first day of the Quiksilver King of the Groms at Halfways on Kuta Beach saw 40 young surfers age 16 and under competing for the eight open spots in the first round of competition that will start at 7:30 am tomorrow morning. Halfways on Kuta Beach was pumping with 3-4 [...]
Quiksilver’s King of the Grom Surfing Comp Set for July 9-12 at Kuta Beach, Bali
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
From July 9-12, Halfway on Kuta Beach Bali will witness the return of the 2009 Quiksilver King of the Groms junior surfing competition. 16 year old and under surfers (better known as Grommets) from all over Indonesia and as far as Thailand and the Philippines will be competing for the local crown . The winner [...]
Kuta Reef to Airport Left / 8th June ’09
Monday, June 8th, 2009
8th June 09 ****MORNING SURF UP-DATE**** G’day friends of Bali and welcome back to the baliwaves.com for another week of surf and weather info along with another couple a hundred photos thrown in. Firstly, and pardon me for raving again. But I dunno whats going on with some surfers these days, especially the ones that [...]
Giant Washing Machine
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Hi Crew,and thanks for stopping by to find out whats been happening here on your favourite holiday island called Bali. Well to tell ya’s the truth not a lot has been happening here along Bali’s West Coast except for a howling W-WSW wind reaching gusts of up to 40knots over the last 2 days. This [...]
Garut Widiarta Wins Wild Card Spot in Oakley’s Pro Junior Global Challenge – With Biggest Pro Junior Prize Purse Ever
Monday, October 6th, 2008
6 October 2008, Gianyar-Bali: Garut Widiarta from Kuta narrowly defeated his cousin Raditya Rondi in the intense 25-minute final today, putting it all on the line in the heavy 2-3 meter waves at Keramas Beach and coming back to the beach with a big smile and a wild card spot in the Oakley Pro Junior [...]
Made “Garut” Widiarta Claims Quiksilver Open Lakeys presented by Coca-Cola ISC!
Monday, July 7th, 2008
Quiksilver Indonesia (Sunday, July 7, 2008) Made “Garut” Widiarta (Kuta-Bali) has pulled out all the stops to defeat the hard-charging Wayan “Gobleg” Suyadnya (Uluwatu-Bali) to claim the richest-ever event on the Indonesian Surfing Championship (ISC) tour, the Quiksilver Open Lakeys, Presented by Coca Cola. Goofy-foot Garut was in his element in the three-to-four foot (1-1.5 [...]
Welcome to Dreamland
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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 [...]
Early Days ….. Kuta
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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 [...]
A Night in Bali
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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 [...]
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