**** MIDDAY SURF UP-DATE **** Welcom back to the one and only baliwaves.com daily (7/7) surf and weather report website . This morning I never made it down for the surf recon of the Outer Reefs until 6.30am. My first impression was that wave height had already dropped off a touch from yesterday and that the wind was coming outta the NNE @ 2-4knot .
The tide was almost on the bottom of a 0.7mtr Low (6.30-7.00am) and wave height between Kuta Reef and Airport Left was showing in the 1-2ft+ range . Nothing really surfable on either Kuta Reef or Airports but Middle Reef did have a few waist to shoulder high plus set waves coming through. And even at that time of the morning there was already some thing like 10 surfers out there, and more climbing into reef taxis at the same time.
The boys and I from here at Home Base had already decided last night that we would be heading for Uluwatu today. We made the scene at 8.00am to see waves peeling off at 2-3ft+ and only 15 surfers in the water between the Main Peak and Racetrack sections. The wind was clean off-shore so the boys hit it straight away while I sat out and set up my 1000mm lens and SLR. As ya’s can see in these latest photos outta Indo it was tube ride city for the first couple of hours. Then as the tide started to fill back in the surfing focus shifted back across to the Main Peak. There were also 10 surfers further up the reef riding Temple’s and getting some rides well over the 100yrd mark. By the time we had lunch the boys threw off going back out for a second surf seeing as though the number of surfers in the water had grown to 80. But hey the waves were pretty darn good and Uluwatu was the place to be today , if you were here in Bali.
Weather wise it was hot hot hot down at Uluwatu and the temperature woulda at least been hitting 32 degree’s outta the shade. And come another hour or so it’s gunna be Bintang o’clock here at Home Base.
The boys from the Kandui Surf Resort have also sent us more photos and reports so check out whats happening up in the Mentawai’s. plus our man Scott Thompson has also been keeping an eye on the surf down under on Australia’s Northern beach’s . You can check out what Scott has for ya’s on the Reader’s Report page. It shouldn’t be long now either and Scotto will be back here in Bali shooting for the baliwaves.
For the surfer / fisherman out there, and isn’t there a little bit of fisherman in all of us ? Well you guys can take a look at the freshly up dated fishing report and photos from the last couple of days sport fishing here in Bali. Check out the wotashot.com banner over in our banner advertising section. These guys offer a unique photo service enabling photographers to sell their photos on-line without any charge to the photographer.
Don’t forget if any of you lot want to grab some photos or video footage surfing here in Bali and we can easily arrange it for ya. Hey and do us a favor and buy a baliwaves.com T-SHIRT and help us to keep running this stuff, I don’t think many of you don’t really know how much time, effort and money we put into the running of baliwaves.com . You can find the link over on the right hand side of this page in the MENUE . I tell ya’s what I’ll give the first 50 surfers AU$10.00 off the price but you’ll have to email us first ok ! I also have a very limited number of baliwaves t-shirts here in Bali so drop me a line if you want to pick one up here in Bali .
Money saver tip #752 : Anyone wanting to get out on a 3 island 7 day boat charter to Lembongan, Lombok and Sumbawa drop me a line cause I was talking to an operator last night and he’s offering the all inclusive trips for just AU$600.00 !!! Start organizing your crew now for the recommencement of these charters in March 08. Better still charter the boat privately with up to 10 of your friends for AU$6,000. all inclusive.
if your looking for a cheap, clean and 100% surfer friendly place to HOME BASE in Bali . Airconditioned rooms starting from AU$13.00 a night per single room and fan cooled rooms @ AU$8.00 per single room, here in Bali, and only a 10 minute walk down to the beach and Outer Reefs here in friendly Tuban .
If it’s something a little more private you’r looking for take a look at the private bungalow for rent we have in our Business Directory and drop the owner Michael Owen an email. Michael is one of the old school surfers who rubs shoulders with the likes of Gerry Lopez and Peter McCabe just to name a couple of Indo Legends.
Finally, I just wanna refresh ya’s about what baliwaves.com is all about . We’re not trying to flog ya’s surf trips or sell ya’s anything for that matter, we’re just trying to show ya’s how good it is here in Bali / Indonesia for a surfing holiday. We want you guys to come over and have a ball and then go back home and tell your friends how good it is.
Best Regards from the No.1 surfing holiday destination that’s got it all, BALI , see ya’s here in 2008 !!!
Slim
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