BALI / INDONESIA
4th – 6th August 2018
Hello everyone and thanks for dropping into the baliwaves (doing our best to bring you a little bit of Bali since back in 1999) for our latest news and best possible views. From right here on the World’s No.1 tropical surfing holiday destination and gateway to Indonesia’s surfing paradise, Bali.
Well as we all know the island of Lombok a few islands to the East of Bali has been again devastated by the 2nd Earthquake in just over a week. Our deepest condolences go out to all the people of Lombok through this sad disaster.
Here in Bali we were also shaken up a little with just about everyone temporarily evacuating their homes and hotels and hanging out on the street through it. Once we found out the actual Quake was all the way off in Lombok yet we still had a good tremor here in Bali we knew it had to be bad over on Lombok. I was watching the news coverage on local tv for the next couple of hours hoping to find out more info but at that time there was little to none except there had been a Quake and that now the island was in danger of a half meter Tsunami.
Luckily it didn’t eventuate except for a less than 1 foot tidal surge. So I was shocked when I woke up to this mornings news of 82 deaths on the island with substantial damage to a lot of homes and hotels. Once again our deepes condolences and sympathy to all the people of Lombok. lets hope that’s the last of the Earth quakes and that everything can return to normal ASAP.
On Saturday my buddy and I thought we’d sneak down to Uluwatu and maybe see some solid ones peeling off the corner or even baby corner. What we were not ready for was the 2 and a half hour drive, in stop go traffic that now seems to be the normal down on the bukit on the weekends after midday. But eventually we made it down there. But only to find some wonky 5-7ft+ waves with long waits breaking on the baby corner with a SSE cross shore wind. There were 4 surfers in the water but we decided to let em have it. The drive back to Tuban was just as bad taking nearly 2.5hrs. Normally it’s a 45 min drive to Uluwatu from Tuban in years gone by.
Yesterday Sunday the 5th and we woke to a rainy overcast morning with that S-SSE wind still blowing. So just because it was a Sunday we stayed home and took it easy. Not know what was install for us last night.
Today the 6th and we couldn’t sit still again today. We were expecting a new decent sized swell to start showing and that it did. With the wind still a shitty S-SSE we took off to try and find some shelter and ride able waves. Eventually we did get in the water but we couldn’t escape that wind. As it shows in today’s photo gallery it was pretty clean but not the best for Bali standards. At least there was only a dozen surfers in the water.
Weather wise we had more early morning rain before clearing away for a hot and sunny afternoon. The outside temperature was also noticeably cooler this morning.
Tomorrow it looks like this swell should peak so we might try and get up early and see if we can beat the wind. So stay tuned for more news and up dates through out the morning (tomorrow) via our @baliwaves Twitter feed.
I’ve also just loaded up a solid photo gallery from our friends up in the Mentawai Islands thanks to the Kandui Surf Resort. So make sure you check it out while your here.
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