25th Jan ’10
****AFTERNOON SURF UP-DATE****
Good afternoon to everyone that’s tuning into the baliwaves.com for the start of another surfing week here on the tropical holiday island of Bali.
This mornings 6.30am surf recon on the Outer reefs here in Tuban was showing exactly what the forecasters had predicted. Wave height dropping down into the 1-1ft+ range between Kuta Reef and Airport Left with the wind coming lightly out of the N-NW @ 1-4knot. So after a lazy breakfast we headed back over to Serangan, over on Bali’s East coast in hope of finding something to surf. Arriving around 10.00am the find the wind having already turned to the SSW and increasing up into the 8-12knot range. Surfing conditions were hence, cross / on-shore at this location, and if it’s on-shore at Serangan no where has any cleaner waves. Wave height here had also taken a nose dive coming through in the 1-2ft+ range. There was the very occassional 3 footer or head high freak set wave, but it usually caught everyone out of position when they did come through. Around 80 surfers in the water by 10.30am with the small wind affected waves mainly closing out after a short ride. No photos today I’m afraid…
Tidal info for today had us down for a 0.9mtr Low @ 10.30am and then running back in for a 2.1mtr High around the 5.00pm mark.
Weather wise there’s been some cloud moving around and I’m sure there’s been rain on some part of the island this morning. Even so it’s been hot and humid with the temperature in the low 30’s on the Celsius scale.
Swell Forecast for the period 23rd Jan through till the 29th Jan isn’t looking real crash hot. Today Saturday is showing wave height to be still holding in the 2-3ft+ range on the more open swell locations. Sunday see’s wave height dropping off into the 1-3ft+ class before fading out to 1-2ft come Monday afternoon. Tuesday see’s a small bump in size putting us back into the 2-3ft range, that will hopefully hold through Wednesday. Thursday through to next Saturday and it’ll be back to 1-2ft+. NB: 2-3ft is equivilant to waist to head high surf. So nothing spectacular for Bali wave standards but still we should be able to find a wave or two if you know where and when to look. Plus who knows what may pop onto the radar between now and next week ?.
Tomorrow I won’t be reporting to you until later in the afternoon as we plan on doing a little road trip in search of greener surfing pastures.
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