ULUWATU, RACTRACK cranking, 11th March 2010

11th March ’10
****AFTERNOON SURF UP-DATE****
Hello to everyone with Bali on their minds and welcome aboard the baliwaves.com for todays indepth look at surfing and weather conditions here on the happy holiday island of Bali.

Ok, so this morning’s surf recon on the Outer Reefs (wind and swell indicators, not too mention perfect waves when they are on) was showing wave height to have backed off a foot or so from yesterday. But still very surfable at waist to head high plus between Kuta Reef and Airport Left. I didn’t stick about for too long down there as I had to get home and wake up “the crew”, get em feed, and then shuttle em down to Uluwatu. I might also mention that surfing conditions were clean with the wind coming lightly out of the SSE @ 1-3knot. Off-shore wind between Kuta and Uluwatu’s Main Peak.

Uluwatu when we arrived was showing wave height coming through at a very consistant head to double head high. All sections, from Temple’s through the Main Peak and the Racetrack were producing some nice waves. Crowd wise there would have been around 50+ surfers spread through the whole line-up, not too bad. Stand out surfers were once again local father and son team of Made Lapur and his boy Agus “Blacky” Setiawan. Made, for the record finished the ISC last year in around 8th position (over all Indonesia). And I tell ya, today it was hard to tell who was the ranked surfer. Just as we were packing it up another local Uluwatu surfer by the name of Made Lana hit the water, but unfortunately for him he snapped his legrope on his first set wave.

Surfing conditions down at Uluwatu were also clean and tidy with the SSE wind but tending a little cross-shore down towards the Temple end of town.

Tidal info for today had a 1.4mtr High @ 7.00am then only just running out for a measley 1.2mtr Low around 12.30pm. Not much tide range due to the current Moon Phase. The next Phase will be a New Moon happening on the 15th of March. (one day before Hari Nypie)

Weather wise it was mainly overcast down on the Bukit this morning, but back here in Tuban  it’s blue sky and sunshine.

Changing dollars to Rupiah on the streets of Kuta you’ll find that –1US$=Rp9,155. — 1AU$=Rp8, 270 — Rates will vary from vendor to vendor of course.

Swell forecast for the following week is showing that we should see another small spike in wave size on Wednesday. Then fading back out through Thursday and then not much left for Friday and Saturday. Sunday morning looks like another small spike filling that should hold through Monday. Then late Monday afternoon come Tuesday morning see’s the start of a more moderate swell marching in towards Bali.

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Best Regards from Bali

Slim