**** AFTERNOON SURF UP-DATE **** Hello surfers and welcome back for the news on surf and weather conditions here in Bali today. Ok first things first and as ya’s can see in these current photos we’ve loaded up for ya’s. While I was up in the mountains visiting the Datah Primary school and handing over just under Rp14,000,000.00 so they can start organizing their new electricity supply . I’ve got some photos of the hand over and I’ll do ad a progress report onto the “School Project” page so ya’s can see whats happening up at the school. Scott was up at Canggu shooting for the baliwaves and it didn’t look too bad. Dewa Made was down at Uluwatu and brought us back 12 minutes of video footage , and as soon as I get this report loaded I’ll start editing ya’s up some clips. Ray from up at the Kandui Surf Resort in the Mentawai Islands has got more fresh news loaded up on his surf report page so check that out while you’re here.
This morning’s surf check of the Outer Reefs was showing a slight drop in wave height from yesterday, but there was still ridable waves ranging between 2-3ft between Kuta Reef and Airports. The first of the tides was a 0.1mtr Low just after sunrise so it was still too shallow on Kuta Reef and Airport Left . But Middle Reef still had some shoulder to head high sets peeling off. No wind early so surfing conditions were very clean and tidy up until around 10.00am when she started to blow outta the WSW @ 3-6knot . I had another look at the reefs just after lunch as the tide was peaking on a 1.9mtr High. Kuta Reef was too fat and full and not receiving much swell at all but Airport Left did have the odd head high set wave breaking and there were a few surfers in the water cooling off. Scott went back up to Canggu again for the incoming tide and reckoned it was better than yesterday @ 2-3ft+. He was in the water trying out our new digital water camera . I’ll load ya’s up a few of those photos first thing tomorrow morning.
Weather wise today it’s been bloody hot !!! Even now at 3.30pm the temperature would still be hovering in the low 30’s on the Celsius scale.
I’d also like to say thanks all the considerate surfers & families that have locked in to our commitment to help a school get hooked up with electricity . We have almost reached our goal, that is if everyone who has pledged makes it through. So hopefully by early next week I’ll be taking a fat wad of Rupiah up to hand over to the school committee !!! I’ll also be making a point of making a new page on baliwaves.com today so we can document the progress up at the “ Datah Primary School ” Thanks again for everyone’s patience and support ! For any new viewers to the baliwaves the paragraph below is a bit of a rundown on our school project.
Ok our first objective of aquiring the funds to hook up electricity to the school is done . So a huge pat on the back to all of you that have already contributed or in the process of !!! But there’s still a bit more we can do for the school so if you are interested take a look at the Info page on the school project over on the menue bar.
I’m stoked that our Scholarship Program for underprivileged Balinese kids has done so well, THANKS BIG TIME to all the big hearted people who have got behind us and helped out. Now I’ve got a new program that I’d like to kick off. One that we can control and keep constant progress up-dates on. I’m talking about kinda adopting a school up in one of the area’s of Bali where there’s no cash flow from tourism and hardly any from anything else for that matter. The kids don’t have to pay school fees, because their Mum and Dad’s don’t have any money to pay. Half, or more of the kids that attend don’t even have shoes to wear to school and walk up to 4km’s bare footed or in rubber thongs just to be there. Now in my opinion this is a worthy project for us to think about. What I’d like to start off with is trying to raise enough cash to get electricity hooked up to the school, with electricity we can then look at a lot of other basic stuff, like a water pump etc etc etc.
Have a good one what ever you’ve got happening out there and stay tuned to the one and only Original Bali Surf and Weather website.
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