If only America Bob Koke didn’t move from Hawaii and step his foot at Bali beach in 1936 (later built Bali Hotel in Kuta), perhaps surfing life in Bali will not becoming like today Bob had a long board he had brought with him from Hawaii and the rest was history.
Although Surfing didn’t immediately catch on though and lucky old Bob had all the waves to himself and its not until 1960′s when Jerry Lopez, Kim Bradley and others and they discovered the Bukit peninsula.
Bali is a good place to surf for many reasons. These include hot water, relatively uncrowded breaks, compared with California and Australia. Bali gets some kind of surf most of the years, breaks and Kuta and Dreamland beach and coral reefs in the rest of the Bukit, including the famous Uluwatu. Bali’s unique geography, which means you can get a selection of left hand breaks on one side of the Bukit, drive for 20 minutes and get a new selection of everything breaks right hand. In Lombok, for example, you would have to walk for 4 hours or more to get from one side of the island to the other.
During the dry season (April-October), the trade winds for surfing the western part of the coast, including stops in the western Bukit including Uluwatu and Bingin. During the wet season (November to March) the tides and winds for the east coast and the eastern Bukit breaks like Nusa Dua.
