Bali Surf & Weather report (PPKM)
28th – 29th July 2021
Hello Bali people and thanks for tuning into the baliwaves, the original surf and weather report website since back in 1999. Ok yesterday the the 28th and with the loosening of PPKM restrictions and no barricade present at Pantai Jerman I thought I better jump in a friends boat and hang out between Kuta Reef and Airport Right for the morning and shoot some photos.
I think the loosening of restrictions here in Bali has always been about following protocols and using basic common sense (those that have it). I also think it’s going to be that way for some time to come. With the last 24hr period seeing Bali hit another un precdented record high 1,452 new infections and the Covid-19 death toll in Bali a very sad and sobering number of 44.
But yesterday I was trying to fix my own mental health as selfish as that may appear. Yep shooting photos, to keep baliwaves up to date for all our highly valued friends was my best medicine yesterday and did wonders for my head. I jumped into Nyomans “reef taxi” yesterday morning around 9.00am as the tide was just starting to push in. The wind was still light on shore out of the North, but only light so the waves were still clean and glassy as it shows in the photos.
Our first stop was to drop off Nobu our Japanese surfer friend at Kuta Reef. Wave height at Kuta Reef was a very fun 2-4ft or chest to well over head on the bigger set waves. I was surprised to only find around 15+ surfers out there at the time and was wishing I had my board and not the camera. But first things first.
After an hour of shooting at Kuta Reef we had to buzz around to Airport Right and pick up 2 other surfers who were riding Toro Toro the very inside end section of the right hand reef. But for those of you that have seen the video clip I shot with my phone on our Face book feed you would have seen just how good and fun it was out on the main break of Airport Right. The sets on AR were also hitting that 4ft mark or well over head and again only 15 surfers on my head count. We didn’t get time to shoot any stills as the two surfers wanted to get back to shore in a hurry. By this time the wind had turned light off shore and conditions could not have been better.
We did have a slight detour on the way around to the “Right”. When we were passing behind Middle Reef I spotted a nice school of “Cakal kuning” / yellow Jacks going off in a frenzy on the surface. So we made a bee line to the fish around 600mtrs behind the waves. We only had the 1 spinning rod with us and it was closer to Nyoman who got to it first hehe. His first cast into the fish and his rod bent up with a hook up, But the hooks never stuck for him so he copped my cheek all the way round to Airport Right.
Weather wise yesterday it was mostly sunny and that off shore ESE wind kept getting stronger right through the afternoon.
This morning’s surf check on the Outer Reefs was surprisingly looking smaller than yesterday. The tide was still pretty low just coming off the bottom and the wind already fresh off shore out of the East. Wave height between Kuta Reef and Airport left was mostly in the 2-3ft range with a slightly bigger set wave spotted hitting Middle Reef.
The latest 24hr Surf Forecast predictions do show wave height starting to bump back up a few feet later this afternoon. and into tomorrow morning. Then further out on the 31st a big moderate swell with a lot of South in it hitting Bali and most of Indonesia.
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Thanks again everyone for all your support over the last 23 years. Please stay safe and and keep the Bali/ Indo dream alive.
Hey and don’t forget if anyone here in Bali wants some where clean, comfortable and discrete to stay walking distance to Kuta Reef / Airport left just drop me a line and we can arrange it. Sure you can go stay in a big empty falling apart hotel and be a stranger. Here at our place you are treated like family. You get all the benefits of our un biased knowledge of surf / fishing information. Plus get to eat real Balinese food from one of the best Balinese / Indonesian chefs on the island (my wife) as guests at our table. Currently most hotels have also dropped their prices right down as well and really putting the squeeze on the small guest house and Homestay set ups and sending most down the tube. You can rest assure they will jack their prices as soon as tourism returns.
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We hope to see you here surfing in Bali soon, and don’t hesitate to drop us an email for any Bali surf info and we’ll do our best to help out.
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