8th June 09 ****MORNING SURF UP-DATE**** G'day friends of Bali and welcome back to the baliwaves.com for another week of surf and weather info along with another couple a hundred photos thrown in. Firstly, and pardon me for raving again. But I dunno whats going on with some surfers these days, especially the ones that live part time here in Bali. I'm always hearing complaints … [Read more...]
Giant Washing Machine
Hi Crew,and thanks for stopping by to find out whats been happening here on your favourite holiday island called Bali. Well to tell ya’s the truth not a lot has been happening here along Bali’s West Coast except for a howling W-WSW wind reaching gusts of up to 40knots over the last 2 days. This morning it kinda looked like there has been an increase in wave height between … [Read more...]
Garut Widiarta Wins Wild Card Spot in Oakley’s Pro Junior Global Challenge – With Biggest Pro Junior Prize Purse Ever
6 October 2008, Gianyar-Bali: Garut Widiarta from Kuta narrowly defeated his cousin Raditya Rondi in the intense 25-minute final today, putting it all on the line in the heavy 2-3 meter waves at Keramas Beach and coming back to the beach with a big smile and a wild card spot in the Oakley Pro Junior Global Challenge, being held from October 7-17 here on the island of … [Read more...]
Made “Garut” Widiarta Claims Quiksilver Open Lakeys presented by Coca-Cola ISC!
Quiksilver Indonesia (Sunday, July 7, 2008) Made “Garut” Widiarta (Kuta-Bali) has pulled out all the stops to defeat the hard-charging Wayan “Gobleg” Suyadnya (Uluwatu-Bali) to claim the richest-ever event on the Indonesian Surfing Championship (ISC) tour, the Quiksilver Open Lakeys, Presented by Coca Cola. Goofy-foot Garut was in his element in the three-to-four foot … [Read more...]
Welcome to Dreamland
Waiting for the tide to change can be an exhausting pastime. You sit there thinking `Yep, that piece of coral has definatley gone now. The tides come up heaps' only to see the dumb thing it re-appear. Yes, very frustrating stuff. Graham, Joe and I had been sitting Nyomans warung for a hour and a half, and as young men can be, Joe was getting a bit impatient. The tide showed … [Read more...]
Early Days ….. Kuta
There was no denying it, "The General" had a drinking problem. To be honest we all had a drinking problem back then in the early eighties, and you could probably say we also showed all the traits of long term substance abuse and too many years living in the tropics. When it came to drinking though, "The General" made the rest of us look like "teetotallers". I remember one … [Read more...]
A Night in Bali
The players in this story are: Peter "I'm not scared of BB guns" Cox; Marcus "I feel sick today" Zeltzer; Daniel "I'm going back to bed" Lamrock. Plus our Seppo mates Anthony, Greg, Sean and Angela. The night started off at Jim's place, where we were treated to a feast of collosal proportions courtesy of Jim's fishing skills earlier in the day. The meal consisted of a 12kg … [Read more...]
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