Bali Surf Report – June 9 2007

AFTERNOON SURF UP-DATE **** Howdy folks and thanks for hanging around for the full run down on Bali’s surf and weather conditions for today. I went down to suss out the waves on the Outer Reefs here in Tuban at 6.00am and to me wave height looked slightly smaller than yesterday. But there was still a few smallies in the waist to head range coming through between Kuta Reef and Airport Left . The wind was coming outta the ESE-SE @ 6-10knot and clean off-shore from Legian to Uluwatu. The tide was still running out at the time and Middle Reef was looking the best for a paddle out the front. But by the time I was heading home for some coffee and get my trolling gear together there were 3 boats full of surfers heading out towards all three main sections. The baliwaves fishing boat hit the water around 8.00am and headed South towards Uluwatu . Going past Balangan there was at least 12 surfers in the water and wave height was looking around waist to shoulder high at best. At Dreamland there was something like 20+ surfers in the water and the majority were on mini mals (if that says anything). Even at Bingin where wave height woulda been in the waist high class there was still half a dozen or more surfers out for a paddle. Uluwatu was by far the best location for a surf today, wave height was a more respectable 2-4ft with 25+ surfers spread from Temple ’s down to the Racetrack . An I did get a couple of side on views of surfers slotted in the barrel. By this time the wind was up in the 10-18knot class and howling out on the open ocean. So with one 12kg Wahoo in the boat I decided to head back home to Tuban. Weather wise it’s been hot and sunny all day and still is now at 4.00pm. Tomorrow for sure I’ll be heading down to Uluwatu with the 600mm and SLR so tune in to the baliwaves.com Sunday Session for a look at some fresh photos from Ulu. I’m sure there was something else I wanted to tell ya’s but that’ll do us for now anyway. See ya tomorrow down at Uluwatu at Surya Cafe ! Our man Pierre has also loaded another surf report from his travels along with a few photos included so check out his Readers Report for that. Plus the lads from the Kandui Surf Resort up in the Menatawai island chain have got more on their Mentawai islands report page. The good guys at www.ihfonline.org who have been running the Balinese Orphan Schooling Program are in serious need of financial help to keep their operation above water, so please if anyone can help these fantastic people please drop them a line.