There’s no limit to the things you can do during your visit. We’ve come up with a few ideas though to get you off to a flying start.
Magic Wave is a surf community newspaper that I published in Bali. Their office is located on the 2nd floor of the now deserted, Legian Arcade. This afternoon I stopped in their to talk with Ebong, a friend and surfer, who is now one of the main men at Magic Wave. Here’s what Ebong had to say. Ebong has such terrific pronounciation. I wish I could roll my ‘R’s like that.
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Now that we are nearing the end of the wet season in Bali, surfers can move over to the west side of the island.
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Surfing editor Paul Diamond contacted me about a book called Surfing’s Greatest Misadventures. Indonesia seems the perfect place to gather those kind of stories, whether the mishaps be scraping yourself on a remote reef or getting hooked up with a Javanese party girl. Indonesia and surfing in Indonesia is made for adventure.
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Kuta Beach, the most famous beach in Indonesia. Today Kuta Beach was fairly quiet due to the cloudy weather. Beach vendors know how it works, blue skies equals tourists, wind and rain equal empty beach. With my shades on the waves look almost psychedelic. My glasses are polarizing and the color I see is a dark vibrant green.
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This afternoon I interviewed Aussie surfboard maker Palu at his new shop on Poppies II in Kuta. The shop is opposite Taman Sari restaurant and features some of his new boards.
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Bali has numerous surfing breaks, and as any good surfer will know, the best breaks are down on the Bukit. The Bukit Peninsula is the ‘upside down mushroom’ shaped chunk of land at the southern end of the island. Its mostly reef breaks and this afternoon I went to have a look at Padang Padang.
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Trade winds are changing in Bali meaning the offshores winds, which are desirable for a good waves are here. Offshore winds hold up the face of the waves slightly longer and blow pesky clouds out to sea.
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Stussy shop is a surfer oriented shop, located at the bottom end of Jl. Legian in Kuta. They don’t sell surf boards and leg ropes, just casual wear and accessories. In the surfing industry all the real margins are in accessories anyway. Who wants the agro of making a surfboard with just a $100 profit margin, when you can knock out shirt and shorts at a factory in Denpasar, for next to nothing and sell them for $30.
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Surfboards are made from a foam ‘blank’ that is a roughly shaped white piece of material. Boards made here in Bali use imported blanks from Australia and all the people making board here are foreigners. There is always a shortage of blanks and it is very hard for Balinese to obtain blanks themselves. The blank is then cut with a saw, filed, wrapped in fiber glass, then covered with resin to give that smooth seal.
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Bali is a mecca for surfing and as surfboard manufacturer explained to me, we have 3 coasts to choose from, the west coast, the south coast and the east coast.
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