Kuta Reef to Uluwatu++, 5th August ’09

5th August 09
****MORNING SURF UP-DATE****
Good morning to all you surfers tuning into the baliwaves.com for today’s Bali surf and weather info fix. Todays 7.30am surf check on the Outer Reefs here in the laid back little suburb of Tuban was showing wave height to have dropped off a touch from yesterday afternoons pulse. But never the less there are still some nice waves peeling off between Kuta Reef and Airport Left in the chest to head high plus sector. Kuta Reef was the best looking wave on the Outers at the time with chest to head high waves wrapping along the reef with the 100 degree bend towards the end section. Middle Reef was still ok at the time with chest to head high plus waves. But will fatten up with the incoming tide. Airport Left also had plenty of waves breaking in the waist to head high range.

This morning I also had a phone through surf report from our good friends at Hendra Surf Photography down at Uluwatu. Apparantly Uluwatu is picking up swell in the head to double head high range and surfing conditions are perfect. The Main Peak was were the focus was with around 25 surfers in the line up and set waves in the double head high class. Temple’s was also showing potential but slightly smaller in the head to head high range and another 10 surfers riding them.

I also had an sms surf report from over at Lakey Peak on the island of Sumbawa to the east of Bali. According to our source wave height was a clean head to head high plus on Lakey Peak with around 20 surfers in the water at 7.00am. Crowd levels over at lakey’s have also backed off down into the 120 range from the previous last couple of months when there was between 180-200 surfers visiting the region.

Surfing conditions here on the Outer Reefs are clean and tidy with the ESE-SE Tradewind slowly increasing in strength. Currently blowing straigh off-shore between Kuta and Uluwatu @ 7-11knot.

Tidal info for today is calling in a 2.3mtr High @ 10.00am and then running out back out for a 0.3mtr Low around the 4.30 mark. We also have a Full Moon rising tonight.

Weather wise there was a few drops of rain through the early hours of the morning but now at 10.00am it’s back to blue sky and sunshine. Heading for a top temperature of around 30 degree’s along the beach.

Photo up-dates: For those of ya’s that don’t check the “recent up-dates” section down on the bottom left of the page you’ll find that yesterday I loaded up a Readers report from our friend “Doc” who is based up at Canggu. We also had a surf report and photos sent through to us from our friends at the Kandui Surf Resort up in the Mentawai Islands. With the photos featuring some perfect tube rides at “Rifles”.