Over my 35 odd years of surfing, as you can imagine, I’ve had my share of hold downs. However, this one has to top them all. Although ‘Shipwrecks’, on the beautiful island off Bali named Nusa Lembongan, is an awesome wave, it can take some work and put you in some scary situations. Over the […]
Booties are as essential for surfing in Bali as your pair of board shorts. Sometimes you don’t need them at all, sometimes it depends which tide, sometimes it’s 50/50 and other times you’re absolutely off the planet crazy if you don’t! Here I will attempt to give you some insight from my 10 years of […]
The first and most important resource you will need is the book INDO, SURF & LINGO by Peter Neely. I used this to plan my first of 10 trips to Indonesia & Bali & apart from subscribing to my Blog, this is the most valuable resource you can have. With the updated versions I still […]
Reef cuts, monkeys, fish, boulders, tides, excitement, ponds, emptiness, fast, slow, rocks, caves, lost, nervousness, walking, rushing, more monkeys, adventure, misadventure, sea snakes, timing, watching, waiting, turtles & commitment are just a few things that come to mind when attempting to paddle out and attempting to paddle in when surfing “Impossibles” in Bali. It all […]
‘Surfing with mates’ My good friend & surfing buddy had left me. Moving to a place for the next five years far away from the barrel as I can imagine……Canada! I can only imagine the withdrawals he went through over all those years. Poor guy! The time finally passed & on his return Brad & […]
I’ve consider myself an experienced surfer. Surfed for many years. Surfed many locations. But on this particular day I felt I was close to my limit. The wave of choice for my close friend and surfing buddy Brett and I was the famous Bali Reef Break ‘Impossibles’ located on the Bukit Peninsula in Bali. It’s […]
I was lounging around at home one stormy Sunday with the typical summer onshores blowing, as they had all week. I knew there was some waves but were in no hurry because of the onshore winds and the surf report wasn’t that positive. I didn’t think I’d bother. It got to late afternoon, the sky […]
Any surfer who’s a surfer has seen the biggest swell of living memory go down at Bali & all around Indo a couple of days ago being Wednesday 25th July 2018! Mind blowing is one expression that a good mate expressed and I think best describes what went down. I witnessed the unbelievable event go […]
You know your surfed out when the surfs absolutely pumping yet your too exhausted to even paddle out…! Two surfs a day for days on end will do that to you. Nusa Lembongan surfing is a funny thing. You can’t just paddle out whenever you want and expect to score waves. It is all very […]
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