Intermediate Surfing in Bali

After a dawn surf to start the day at Greenbowl and a delicious fresh breakfast back at the camp, our intermediate and advanced group headed out to Pandawa for their second session of semi-private lessons and surf guiding of the day.

There was a brisk cross-offshore wind blowing which was making conditions a little bumpy, but there were plenty of clean waves in the chest to shoulder-high range for everyone to enjoy.

This morning, our intermediate and advanced surfers headed out to try and make the best of what little swell there was with a drive to Nungalan on the south coast of the Bukit peninsular.

On arrival at the car park, waves appeared to be breaking cleanly with a light offshore wind but, unfortunately, by the time the group had hiked down through the forest to the beach, the side-shore wind had increased and the previously clean waves were no more.

The group tried to make the best of the conditions and all caught a few waves but it was just one of those days when mother nature wasn’t on our side!

As the swell remained small this morning the intermediate and advanced group from PPSC returned to Greenbowl to make the most of the waves on offer.

Waves were breaking between knee and shoulder height so it would have been nice if the swell was a little bigger, but the clean, uncrowded and sunny conditions were still enjoyed by everyone.

After breakfast back at the surf camp, the group surfed their second session at Uluwatu, meanwhile our beginners’ group were surfing on the west cost of the Bukit peninsular at Balangan.

Ast the wave height had dropped again since the previous day, our intermediate and advanced group headed back to local swell-magnet Greenbowl for their first session of the day.

Waves were breaking cleanly both left and right and everybody caught plenty of waves before making their way back to the surf camp to refuel before their second session of the day at Nikko.

Swell size had dropped overnight but there were still plenty of waves on offer for both intermediates and beginners as our two groups headed back to Geger Left again this morning for their group and semi-private surfing lessons.

Waves were breaking in the knee to shoulder-high range and were very clean on what was a beautiful, uncrowded sunny morning of ‘wet-season’ waves here in paradise.

In a change to our original schedule, Geger Left in Nusa Dua was the spot of choice this morning for our beginner and intermediate groups’ first sessions of the day.

We had group, semi-private and private lessons all taking place this morning and everybody enjoyed the clean, uncrowded waves that were breaking between knee and waist high.

Our beginners and intermediates joined forces this morning to surf at Balangan — one of our local west-facing beaches.

Thanks to the light morning wind, everybody got to enjoy their lessons at what is typically a dry-season break and took advantage of the clean and uncrowded knee to waist-high waves that were coming through on the sets.

The westerly wet-season winds returned this morning so our intermediate group made the trip to Geger Left for their first session of surfing lessons this morning.

Waves weren’t as big as yesterday and a fair number were sectioning or closing out, but it was still very clean and everybody enjoyed plenty of rides.

For their second session, the group will be surfing at Mushroom Rock in Nusa Dua where they’ll join up with our beginner group who surfed their first session next door at Black Stone.