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Thursday, October 30, 2008 

bali

Well, back home 3 weeks now. I had the best time. I have no surfing pictures as all the surfing done on reefs that you take little boats out to. The days went like this...wake up...breakfast buffet, walk out the back of the resort, check the tide/waves etc. There will be several owners of small local wodden boats with outboard motors hoping you will use their services. You stick with the same guy each time so he takes care of you. 50,ooo rupia, about 3 bucks for a round trip out to the reef. About a 5-15min trip depending on what part of the reef you want to surf that day. You jump out of the boat, he goes back to shore to continue his services for other surfers. You tell him come back and get me in 2hrs...he does...and you are happy to climb aboard....head back to the beach...rinse off...jump in the pool....the pool has a plunge bar...so you order a Bintang or 3 if it happens to be happy hours....The waves posted on this site just recently at Blue Mountain...it/s like that...every day...some days a bit smaller, some days bigger. 6 foot there is like 10 foot here, more power. Paddled into the biggest waves of my life...and paid for it. Dreamlands was a solid 9 foot with bigger sets, I caught set waves but also got the shit kicked out of me...and was scared. Not really my idea of fun. Impossibles on the same day was smaller by about a foot or two but on dangerous reef, Pandang Pandang was perfect but so crowded and critical that I didn't bother...that's why I surfed Impossibles instead...same beach. Uluwatu that day was a solid 15 foot, I watched, as did most everybody else, only 4 people out and only saw I person catch a smaller set. Most of my surfing done on Kuta reef. I stayed at the Ramada Bintang that sits right on the reef. Biggest day there was solid 6 foot at Middles. Anyway...we had such a great time that we have already booked our flights for July next year!!! Hope everybody gets waves as soon as possible!

Sounds incredible. Thanks for the recap, although I must say... not one picture?

I have many pictures that have no wves, will post some of the fun family pics

I have caught some pretty good waves this hurricane season...Crooked Island, Cape Hatteras, Mexico Beach, and Blue Mountain. However, no good surfing shots either. Errgh.

Still working on the surf trip plans for everyone this spring. Details and options to follow.

Sounds like a blast. In terms of the season. Were you there at what's considered 'wave season?'. Or is everyday wave season? Sounds like you had it consistent the whole time.
Did you bump into Bill Bradley while down there? I wasn't sure you two were going to overlap your trips there.

The swell that hit a few weeks ago here at Blue Mountain were the first solid fall swell of the season (sans-hurricane). Hopefully we'll get more this season. Nearly full suit weather now.

Cross, Seems like always waves somewhere if willing to travel abit. The west side of the island is offshore this time of the year, now going into wet season and better on the east side. Lefts predominate on the west and rights on the east...as a rule of thumb. Didnt see Bill, he was commig as I was going.
Good luck this winter...I wear a full suit only a few weeks of the year here.

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