Surf Report

Small waves and weird direction , we surfed at the crack of dawn in Nusa dua fun clean long rides as we checked uluwatu and it was terrible fat and short peak rides. We headed back to padang padang beach ate breaky , and sat at the beach with some lovely little hotties.

Late arvo we surfed an unknown secret spot which is slightly hard to get to through dense jungle and many hard tracks , to come out to find some nice waves even though the direction was weird we seemed to get some great long rides with just us out , which is almost every time ive been there i dont think anyone else knows of this spot …siccc

Mid Next week looks like the first swell of the Rainy season 2mtres , so all you hot pro’s needing accommodation in bali we’ve got it covered.

So get booked in as we still have some spots available

Take it easy

Daily Surf Report

Sorry for no report for dayzzzzzzzzzz been lazy… But thats Bali. Hehehehehehe

Well the beginners surfed Balangan pretty much all day well to 3 then off to greenbowls , the top end of balangan was crowded but we surf the end bit by ourselves which personally is the best part of the wave offshore most of the day and about 2 to 3ft . Our “pro’s” surfed Uluwatu and then Greenbowls both offshore and around 3ft.

Tonight we are having a local BBQ on the beach with fireworks and a fullmoon midnight surf session. Should be siccccc

10 AMAZING SURFING VIDEO CHANNELS

We hope you’ll enjoy the video channels we’ve curated for you on YouTube and Vimeo - follow and subscribe to their fantastic vids, surfing news, short films and movies.

• Surfers Village TV - All the news, all the time…

• Internation Surfing Association on YouTube - a very important vehicle to improve the communication among the ISA and surfing world.

• Surfrider Foundation - Founded in 1984 by a handful of visionary surfers in Malibu, California, the Surfrider Foundation now maintains over 50,000 members and 80 chapters worldwide.

• SoCal Beaches Magazine Videos - Find the hottest surfing videos shot along the beaches of San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles.

• Paul Topp Surf Photography - Mostly surfing, water sports and action videos from Hawaii and abroad.

• Billabong - Live. Love. Surf. Since those beginnings Billabong has expanded its product range to include boardsport products such as wetsuits, watches, surfboards, snowboard outerwear and skateboarding apparel. The channel has 119 videos so far on Vimeo.

• Vita Brevis Films  - the very crest of contemporary creative and commercial aesthetics.

• Webber surfing adventures - Surfing in Australia and Indonesia since 1975.

• Kurtis Surf Goggles & Surfing Sunglasses – they designed the “solution” for surfers but they also produce awesome vids.

• ASP World Tour - Watch all the latest surfing action of the world’s best surfers in the world’s best waves. Heats on demand, event highlights and exclusive interviews.

Did we miss any great surfing video channels? Let us know!

EROSION POSES PROBLEMS FOR AUSTRALIAN SURFING

Australia’s beaches are eroding, some having completely disappeared. Kingscliff Beach, the location of one of the country’s oldest surf clubs and famous for its stretch of golden sand, is but a shadow of its former self.

Several east coast beaches around the town of Noosa, on Queensland’s Gold Coast, have lost up to 45 meters (50 yards) over the past 3 years.

From the Telegraph:

Of 309 regularly frequented stretches of surfing coastline, 38 now have beach areas that have shrunk to 30 feet wide or less. Heavily eroded beaches include Sydney’s second-longest, Narrabeen-Collaroy, which has had to have thousands of tons of sand trucked in and dumped along its two-and-a-quarter mile shoreline.

Scientists are unsure about the causes and whether the sand will ever be returned by ocean currents, but the most likely cause of the beach erosion is the La Niña weather phenomenon. Over the past couple of years Australia suffered La Niña events such as severe flooding, storms, strong tides and changes in wave direction, all contributing to sand loss.

photo by Dinkum (Wikimedia Commons)

Surf life savers are also finding themselves without beaches to patrol.

At the NSW Surf Life Saving championships in Kingscliff last year, sand had to be trucked in to the southern end of the beach. This year the erosion is so bad that the surfboat events are being moved from Kingscliff to another beach.

From goldcoast.com.au:

This year, in an almost mirrored reversal, the southern beach boasts a healthy strip while the northern beach has been dramatically shaved as erosion continues on its destructive northward path.

SEE THE SIGHTS OF BALI!

Away from the thumping beats and flowing alcohol of Kuta there is a thriving and fascinating culture to experience on the island of Bali.

As I’m a bit lazy, I’m going to quote a couple of respected news sources and let the ‘liberal media’ do the talking.

A Reuters article entitled ‘48 hours in Bali’ cuts to the chase (I guess they have to if they’ve only got 48 hours) by spending most of the time in Ubud, Bali’s cultural capital:

Take in a traditional dance performance. There are about six different offerings each night, both in Ubud and in surrounding villages. Notable performances include dance troupe Semara Ratih, known for expressiveness, and Suara Sakti, a bamboo gamelan group that invites viewers up on stage at the end to feel the thunder of the giant instruments in their bodies.

I’m going to lay off any comments about feeling the thunder of a giant instrument in your body. Oh darn… The piece also mentions Uluwatu temple, but only briefly: cliff-top temple, monkeys who steal your sunglasses, etc. You know the score.

image credit Nepomuk (Wikimedia Commons)

Leave it to Ross Halfin to wax poetic about Uluwatu.

From a New York Times interview with the ‘celebrity photographer’:

Q. How do you compose a good travel photo?
A. You have to try and shoot things in a different way. Uluwatu Temple in Bali is on the edge of the sea. It’s on a cliff, actually, a thousand-foot drop. This way you’re looking at the sea dead-on, from above, and you get these amazing textures and colors; the ocean crashing into the shore; all these layers. I could go there and get different pictures every time.

Entrance into Uluwatu now costs a whopping $2.22 US dollars foreign visitors. That’s around €1.69. OK, it’s a price hike of 200% from before, but that’s a 200% increase on practically nothing. If any backpacker from a rich country wants to whine about that they deserve to get their glasses stolen by monkeys and maybe even tossed into the sea from atop those majestic cliffs. The view is amaaaaazing and worth the price alone.