Ability Level: Intermediate

Our beginner and intermediate groups headed to Balangan beach again this morning for their group and private surf lessons where the waves were breaking between waist and shoulder-high with a couple of occasional larger sets.

The crowds were thin and our students had the middle of the beach to themselves for much of the session, which meant there were plenty of waves to go around and the maximum potential for making improvements.

As you can see from today’s gallery, everybody caught lots of waves and had a great time in the Bali morning sun.

Balangan’s palm-fringed beach was the location of choice for today’s intermediate lessons where waves were coming through between waist and shoulder-high.

Today’s guests — appreciating the value of even better instructor-to-student ratios — all opted for either private or semi-private lessons and it was apparent by the number of great rides they all got to enjoy.

After breakfast, our intermediates returned to Balangan for their second session while elsewhere at camp our advanced group surfed Uluwatu then Greenbowl and our beginners surfed at our local break of Padang Padang.

Another day, another great surfing session. This morning both of our advanced and intermediate groups headed to Uluwatu for surf guiding and surf lessons. Swell is bigger and conditions are clean with light offshore wind.  The waves are shoulder high to head high or overhead high on sets.  Perfect opportunity for advanced group to practice different surf maneuvers. Our intermediate learners were trying to keep up with more experienced surfers and did their best during surf lessons.

Our beginners at the same time enjoyed their surf lessons at Toro Toro beach this morning. Very comfortable conditions for beginners surf lessons. Not so busy and waves are waist high to chest high. Seems like someone had really nice surf sessions this morning.

There were waves of varying sizes and shapes on offer this morning as our intermediate and advanced surfing groups headed the short distance to Uluwatu for their first surf sessions of the day.

The swell was a little slower coming through than it had been for the previous evening’s sunset session but conditions were clean and glassy and waves ranged from chest to overhead on the larger sets.

From our intermediates making some of their first turns down the line to our expert instructors like Blacky boosting enormous airs, everyone had a great morning of waves.

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.

It was intermediate-friendly fun at Uluwatu again this morning as swell height was relatively small for the second day in a row.

Light onshore winds meant that the waves were still very clean and everyone was taking advantage of Uluwatu’s long peeling walls during their lessons.

Elsewhere, our advanced guiding group surfed at Gunung Payung where the more exposed break provided more challenging waves.

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.

It was glassy perfection this morning at Uluwatu for our intermediate group lessons.

As the dry-season wave in our immediate area that picks up the most swell, it’s often only suitable for more advanced surfers.

Not today though, as glassy waves were reeling down the reef in the waist to shoulder-high range and ideal for our intermediate surfers to practice making their first turns and enjoying those long rides down the reef.