****AFTERNOON SURF UP-DATE**** Hi crew and thanks for tuning into the baliwaves.com for another day of smoking waves and perfect weather. And oh yeah I woulda had this report on line earlier but I had to make a bolt down to the doctors after shooting these photos. You see it was only 9 days ago that I was over on the island of S u m b a w a at Scar Reef. For those who are not aware the islands east of Bali are full of Malaria carring mosquito’s. And after coming down last night with a lot of the symptoms I thought I better get my hot and cold sweating butt down to the doctor for a check up. And the good news from my friendly Bali nese doctor was all clear. So just remember if your planning on doing some island hoping here in Indonesia be aware of Malaria !!!
Ok so I made my first surf check on the Outer Reefs around 8.00am to find wave height to be slightly bigger than yesterday and brea king in the 3-5ft range between Kuta Reef and Airport Left. The first of our tides today was a 2.5mtr High around 11.00-11.30am and then we’ll see another dry reef exposing 0.1mtr Low tide around 6.00pm. There was no wind at all through the early am until around 9.00am when the ESE off-shore Tradewind kicked in to tidy up the waves along Bali’s West Coast.
Kuta Reef was brea king very nicely in the waist to head high plus range and peeling off for a good 80yrds as the tide was running up. Not too crowded either with only something like 35 surfers spread through the lin-up.
Middle Reef only had a few surfers in the water with some solid bomb sets brea king in the double head high plus class.
Airport Lefts , well I thought we’d shoot Airports for a change today and as the tide kept pushing in so did wave height increase. There were some pretty good waves coming through but there were also some close outs. Probably just about all the swell AL could handle when the double over head sets rolled through.
Ok then I’m gunna take it easy this afternoon and try and shake this fever. But you should make sure ya flick through the Revver Video Clip section on baliwaves.com for the 5 NEW VIDEO CLIPS of Padang Padang I loaded up yesterday. And I’ll be back tomorrow with more news on Bali ’s surf and weather.
Weather wise on the baliwaves.com scale of weather we’ll have to give her a 9-10, near perfect.
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Swell Forecast (15th – 22nd June) Well after taking a long look at the available swell prediction sites it looks like for today and most of tomorrow wave height will be remaining in the 2-4ft range depending on location of course. Then late Monday or possibly Tuesday we’ll start to see the next swell hitting the reefs of Ind onesia . I’m pretty sure by Wednesday we are gunna be seeing some very solid waves in the double to quadripple over head size. Wave height will settle down a touch, but not too much come Thursday then continuing to taper off through Friday. Then next weekend there’s gunna be more action with arrival of a second swell pushing wave height back into the 5-6ft+ sector. So get ready for it and if your gunna be here in Ind onesia then ya had better stay tuned to the baliwaves.com for the daily coverage.
Ok As ya’s may have noticed… these current photos are just a few of the one’s I shot from my little 3 day excursion to Scar Reef at the end of last week. I’ve also managed to put together a little 2 minute video clip from Scar’s but I had to slow down the speed because I was filming “hand held†from a rocking boat. But anyway I still think it looks ok and it sure as hell does give you a good idea of the power of a solid wave at Scar Reef on the island of Sumbawa .
Drop me a line if your interested in getting on board a 9.5mtr high powered ocean speed boat if you want to surf locations like Desert Pt, Scar Reef, Supersuck, Yo-Yo’s without having to wait days to get the their the old way. I’m thinking this type of trip is gunna be the New Way to hit Lombok and Sumbawa instead of the old 7 day slow boat system. Especially when it’s priced around the same range but doubling the amount of surf time !
And just a reminder that we still have some baliwaves.com T-Shirts and stickers available for ya’s here in Bali so drop me a line.
Mentawai islands ; The good guys from the Kandui Surf Resort have sent us through another new batch of photos showing off more perfection in their part of Ind o. And you’ll be able to suss them out in the Surf Report section. Here’s another baliwaves bonus for ya’s dept; Anyday now we’ll also be providing ya’s with surf reports and photos from the Macaronis Surf Resort up in the Mentawai’s. I was talking to a couple of friends yesterday who have been out on charter in the Ments and they reckon if they ever make it back up there again they won’t be going on a boat after stopping off in the Surf Resorts. That’s where they’ll be heading. The Surf Resorts up there just make it all too easy for their guests with speed boats to zap you around all day and then back to the Resort for R & R in the evenings.
G-Land ; I had a pnone call from G-Land this morning and Raymond said to tell you guys and girls that he’ll give you 15% discount off the published price. Just click on his G-Land banner over in our banner advertisement section and drop him an email.
Changing dollars to Rupiah on the streets of Kuta and the Aussie dollar is just getting stronger and stronger, currently 1AU$=Rp8,700 while 1US$=Rp9,140 Give or take a hundred Rupiah.
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