It’s a great time of the year to be in Bali with lots of Balinese Hindu ceremonies to experience-barong dance, cockfighting, etc. You have got see and experience Bali cultures and traditions as well as enjoy the surf.
The WCT pros and other pros are arriving for some warm water sessions and filming their parts for Taylor Steele’s latest project Intersection. Crews in town include -Wade Goodall, Taj Burrows, Luke Stedman, and Tiago Pires escaping from cold Portugal and the Hurley groms on fire.
On Monday May 10 Canngu was 3-4ft. The trade winds were howling by mid morning, but it was super rippable early. The East coast was a fun 3ft early before the wind kicked in as well. Tuesday was smaller. Canggu still had plenty of great waves around 3ft on all the breaks. It was glassy till after lunch before the trade winds blew in. The East coast was a little bigger 3-4ft and fun waves. On Wednesday we enjoyed great weather and waves all over the island in the 3-4 feet range. Thursday was a case of more of the same. Everywhere was pumping before the rain came. Friday was similar again, with great waves on offer everywhere 3-4 feet. On Saturday the swell finally dropped before a fresh south swell came up on Sunday morning with the Eastside reefs firing in the 3-5 feet range and the West coast and beach breaks of Kuta fun.
– Jason Childs.
Nothing like a great bottom turn to set up the waves on Bali’s Westcoast.
Photo: Childs.
WCT surfer Luke Stedman and female WCT surfer Silvana Lima battling it out at Canggu.
Photo: Childs.
Local style tubing on Bali’s Westcoast.
Photo: Childs.
Narrabeen Hurley ripper Ben Short tearing up one of Bali’s rights.
Photo: Childs.
The odd good left on Bali’s Westcoast but not much on the Bukit again this week.
Photo: Childs.
he Sandbar at Canggu firing on high and low tide all week.
Photo: Childs.
Australian Hurley team manager Mitch Ross showing the Hurley groms how to power through a front side turn during the groms Bali training camp.
Photo: Childs.
The Eastcoast of Bali early morning glass.
Photo: Childs.
Gotta love Keramas if ya a regular footer.
Photo: Childs.
Once the land of lefts now it’s the rights that draw the masses.
Photo: Childs.
Fun left on the black sand of Bali’s Westcoast.
Photo: Childs.
North Sumatra.
As we hit the mid way point of May, conditions have started to become a little stop-start as is often the case as the year wears on. The early part of the reporting period (Sunday the 9th - Tue 11th) were by far the best waves of the week, with’ the odd 6 footer floating around for those willing to set the rail and pull in.
This changed radically on the 13th and for those of you who follow Ben McCartney’s Indo Swell Forecast would know what happened next. Most of the computer models predicted 4 meter 19 second swell, but it failed to materialise. (Ben got it right predicting the much smaller conditions that turned up) and was instead replaced by a VERY mixed up junky west swell and 25-30 kt winds.
Those conditions maintained until this morning (Sunday May 16) but as this report gets typed sunshine and light winds have returned. A quick check of swell models reveals a decent pulse in the next couple of days though, hopefully it will be a repeat of last week when a banging swell and favourable winds combined on report day. Either way we will be back next Monday with the full wrap-up in the Indo Video Swell Journal.
- Shane Peel.
Tim Watt from the USA slotted at GT's on Sunday the 9th.
Photo: Peel
View from the pit at GT's on the arvo of the 9th.
Photo: Peel
An empty almost dry bottomed keg on the 9th.
Photo: Peel
An offshore mysto reef heaving on the arvo of the 9th.
Photo: Peel
Unidentified Indo kid handing around a lesson on how to ride the pit on the 9th at GT's.
Photo: Peel
Unidentified Indo kid handing around a lesson on how to ride the pit on the 9th at GT's.
Photo: Peel
The reason most of us choose to visit Indonesia on our surfing holidays … clean glassy overhead perfection!
Photo: Peel
Timmy Watt normally runs an ER in one of the USA's big city’s here he applies a deft doctors touch to GT's.
Photo: Peel
Timmy Watt normally runs an ER in one of the USA's big city’s here he applies a deft doctors touch to GT's.
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