Temple Surf Report and Spot Info

This morning, for the second day in a row, our intermediate group headed to Temple for their first surf session of the day.

It’s safe to say that conditions weren’t Bali’s finest, but on a challenging morning, where the weather conditions were changing throughout, our instructors still managed to find some clean and uncrowded waves for our surfers.

Swell was arriving quite lumpy and bumpy, between knee and shoulder-high, and all the surfers made the best of the waves on offer.

A few days of favourable wind means that we’re back to breaks more commonly surfed in the dry season and that started this morning with a boat trip to Temple for our advanced surf guiding group.

Waves were glassy and breaking in the chest to overhead range — mainly lefts but with a few rights on offer too.

As well as guiding, some guests this morning were taking advantage of private lessons for that extra level of attention and our resident in-water photographer was on hand to capture all the action.

Our intermediate and advanced groups caught the boat at dawn this morning down to Temple at the end of the Uluwatu reef for their first surf session of the morning.

The intermediate group stayed at the north end of the reef where the waves were slightly softer and more forgiving and the advanced guiding group sat further up the reef where it was shallower and hollower.

After returning to camp for breakfast both groups surfed their second sessions of the day at Uluwatu.

Our intermediate and advanced groups jumped on the boat at first light this morning and headed up to ‘Temple’ at the end of the Uluwatu reef for their first surf session of the day.

Waves were coming through in the waist to head-high range which meant they were suitable for the range of abilities across the two groups and everyone had lots of long rides in the uncrowded and glassy conditions.

After a very short rain shower this morning it’s been another glorious day of sunshine here on the Bukit and it’s only the wind direction and swell that are showing signs of the change in season so far.

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.

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.

Today intermediate group surfed at Temple this morning, the size of the waves were head high, over head on set and the condition is clean, everybody had a good ride (see photos). the weather was sunny and the swell size was smaller than yesterday.

Advanced group Surfed at Temple this morning, the waves were overhead high, sunny light off shore winds, everybody had a good ride (see photos). Beginners and intermediate group surfed at Dreamland were rewarded with great conditions, everybody had fun session, The swell smaller than yesterday.