Intermediate Surfing in Bali

After the welcome arrival of some new swell yesterday, our intermediate and advanced groups were back at Uluwatu for this morning’s dawn patrol.

Waves were slow at times but as the session went on, they grew in size and consistency and there were plenty of waves on offer to keep everybody happy and suitably challenged.

After a slightly cloudy start to the day, the sun is beaming again and wet season continues to hold off — much to everyone’s delight!

After breakfast, our intermediate and advanced groups split and surfed at Greenball and Dreamland, while our beginners who surfed at Padang Padang this morning also had their second session at Dreamland.

Today is the perfect day for  intermediate surfers to learn and to improve surfing skills here in Bali. This morning our intermediate group headed to Uluwatu to have surf lessons there. Conditions are excellent today, bright sunny day with fresh offshore wind, so everything promised really fun session. Swell is smaller  than yesterday and waves are clean, chest high to shoulder high size. Super fun and perfect for our surfers to exhibit their surf skills.

Balangan was the location chosen by our expert instructors and spot selectors for today’s beginner and intermediate surfing lessons.

Like many of the breaks in the surf camp’s local area, the different sections of the Balangan reef have distinct characteristics which are each suited to different ability levels. This means that, on days like today, both beginner and intermediate surfers can enjoy waves that are perfectly suited to each of them at the same beach.

Waves were coming through between knee and head-high today and everybody had a lot of fun in the November morning sun.

At the far end of the Uluwatu line up, under the shadow of the famous 11th-century temple perched on top of the 70m high cliffs lies its namesake wave — Temples. This spot is a favourite with our guests thanks to its long glassy walls and its crowd-unfriendly location.

It’s possible to access the wave by walking along the reef at low tide but our favourite way is to travel in style by taking the boat from Padang Padang, which is what our intermediate group of surfers did today for their morning lessons.

Waves were coming through in the shoulder to overhead range and everyone enjoyed a fun and uncrowded session before heading back to camp for breakfast.

Today our intermediate group ventured to Balangan for both of their morning surf lessons. Palm-fringed with white sand, Balangan is one of the most beautiful beaches on the west coast of the Bukit peninsular and just being there is an experience of its own.

There was a little wind but waves were still clean and all of our surfers were making great progress riding along Balangan’s green faces as waves were arriving in the waist to shoulder-high range.

After their surf lessons, everybody headed back to camp for our delicious weekly BBQ which was well deserved!

It was all aboard the boat to Temples for our intermediate and advanced groups this morning as they headed out at dawn to one of our guests’ favourite spots.

Always thin on crowds due to the long walk or even longer paddle, Temples is just a short boat trip from Padang Padang and a fun way to start the day — enjoying a view of the Uluwatu coastline from a different perspective as the sun rises.

This morning the crowd was as thin as ever as waves were coming through in the shoulder-high to overhead range and everyone had their fill of long lefts before heading back to camp for breakfast.

For today’s surf report, our intermediate and advanced guiding group headed to Dreamland beach for their first surf of the day.

Arriving shortly after dawn to an empty lineup — as we often do — our surfers enjoyed their pick of the waves as they spread across the lineup. At the start of the session the set waves were breaking all the way along the beach for some long rides, and as the tide filled in, the shorebreak and inside reform started to turn on.

Waves today were breaking in the shoulder-high to overhead range and everybody had a great session with plenty of rides before the short drive back to surf camp for another delicious breakfast.

This morning our intermediate surfers were up at dawn and out on the boat to Toro Toro for their first session of surf lessons and guiding.

As you can see from the gallery, it was the girls who were on fire this morning, catching all of the best waves of the session!

Wave height had increased overnight as the new swell filled in and our expert guides and instructors once again made the perfect pick to score the ideal combination of fun, glassy, and uncrowded waves.