Went surfing at Uluwatu yesterday - it was awesome!! It is the most amazing place I have seen so far in Bali. It is off the beaten track a little in the far southern tip of Bali, a mountainous area where the cliff edge drops away into crystal clear water and there are perfect left handers rolling in every moment.
I have never before been up close and personal to such fantastic surfers (except when I have been surfing with the MOB of course). I was alongside these Balinese boys whilst they were inside big barrels and yet I could just paddle a little way out of danger - just like it looks in the surfing films. They would hoot and holler in balinese to each other and were such a physical presence - cutting and thrusting, shooting out spray at anyone who looked like dropping in - that I don't know if it was deliberate to intimidate others (this was after all their break) or if that was just them at play. I have never seen anything like these guys in the surf - they were throwing their boards around like frisbees and shooting 10 feet into the air off the back of the wave when they were finished with it - hooting all the time. And then they grin at you. Cute.
To get to this spot you have to climb down the cliff. There are stairs that take you down through the restaurants that look out over this gorgeous piece of paradise and when you get to the bottom you swim out through a cave and paddle over the reef. Looking back up at the white cliffs is a perspective I was very pleased to have seen. It is quite special. So glad we had Danny and Gillian with us too because they were happy to have a couple of beers in the restaurant with the kids while Husband and I had a surf. And there are guys who take photos and sell them to you -so I had to buy the one of Husband and I on the same wave! What a memory! It was a very special day. When I go to an internet cafe I will try and put it up here.
Now, I would like one of you Mob/Bobsters to get on this blog and post some news of Australia. What is going on over there? Any waves? Come on...tell me.
SM
I have never before been up close and personal to such fantastic surfers (except when I have been surfing with the MOB of course). I was alongside these Balinese boys whilst they were inside big barrels and yet I could just paddle a little way out of danger - just like it looks in the surfing films. They would hoot and holler in balinese to each other and were such a physical presence - cutting and thrusting, shooting out spray at anyone who looked like dropping in - that I don't know if it was deliberate to intimidate others (this was after all their break) or if that was just them at play. I have never seen anything like these guys in the surf - they were throwing their boards around like frisbees and shooting 10 feet into the air off the back of the wave when they were finished with it - hooting all the time. And then they grin at you. Cute.
To get to this spot you have to climb down the cliff. There are stairs that take you down through the restaurants that look out over this gorgeous piece of paradise and when you get to the bottom you swim out through a cave and paddle over the reef. Looking back up at the white cliffs is a perspective I was very pleased to have seen. It is quite special. So glad we had Danny and Gillian with us too because they were happy to have a couple of beers in the restaurant with the kids while Husband and I had a surf. And there are guys who take photos and sell them to you -so I had to buy the one of Husband and I on the same wave! What a memory! It was a very special day. When I go to an internet cafe I will try and put it up here.
Now, I would like one of you Mob/Bobsters to get on this blog and post some news of Australia. What is going on over there? Any waves? Come on...tell me.
SM
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