****MORNING SURF UP-DATE**** Hello surfers and thanks for stopping by the baliwaves.com for your daily (7/7) dose of Bali surfing and weather information. And now I think about it I think we’ve been doing this stuff for ya’s for around the last 10 years relentlessly.
Ok, today like I mentioned yesterday wave height has indeed had a little boost and is now showing in the 2-3ft+ range between Kuta Reef and Airport Left. The first of our Bali tides today was a 2.4mtr High @ 11.00am and then we’ll be in for a dry reef exposing 0.1mtr Low around 5.30pm. Unfortunately with the swell increase the ESE-SE Tradewind has also boosted in strength and has been blowing hard off-shore in the 12-18knot range since sun up.
The Outer Reefs were producing waves in the waist to head high plus class on all three main sections (Kuta Reef, Middle Reef & Airport left) but heavily affected by the strong off-shore wind. Even so there were still quite a few punters out surfing all 3 sections.
I did have plans to head down to Uluwatu this morning but like the best laid plans they don’t always work out. Down at Uluwatu you’d be able to find plenty of action on the Main Peak section through the midday high tide. And then I’d expect the low tide Racetrack section to be delivering some tubular rides through the later part of the afternoon.
Down along the beach breaks of Kuta through to Legian there’s also be plenty of banks on offer. Plus there’s an Oakley Grommet contest going down there at the Half Way point of the beach. Actually in coincidence with Indonesia’s Indepence Day from the Dutch rule (17.08.1945) there’ll be a huge concert and all sorts of stuff happening on the beach later this afternoon. So if you’re here in Bali make sure ya get yaself down there later on.
Weather wise today we were off to a cloudy start this morning and we even had about 10 minutes of rain while I was down doing the surf recon. But now at 11.30am the sun is starting to bust back out and we’ll be in for a warm to hot afternoon in Bali.
Swell Forecast ; (16th – 22nd) Our short range expectations are not looking too bad and tomorrow the 17th (Independence Day) we should see a bit more swell on the reef and beach breaks. But this will only last through till Monday before it tapers back off and down into the 1-3ft range for the remainder of the week.
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The boys from Kandui Surfing resort in the Mentawai’s have also sent us some sick sick photos of there recent swell and you’ll find those on there surf report page. Plus the crew from Macaroni’s Surf resort have also sent us new photos and surf reports from their part of the Ments.
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