Summer Dream in Bali

To get ready to start the new winter season I decided to go on holiday to Bali with my friends. As surfing is my second passion after skiing Bali is the perfect place-, warm water, tropical climate, white beaches.....and really nice waves.

 

The first week we decided to go to Lombok to get away from the tons of people and to surf the mellow reef breaks of grupuk bay and a really nice wave called Mawi. We enjoyed the more aboriginal way of life of the sasak people there.

 

After we heard there is a really big swell coming towards Bali ( the biggest seen since a long time). We decided to watch the famouse waves Padang Padang and Uluwatu in its best conditions. We stayed two days in Bingin right in front of the beach with the breaks Bingin and Impossibles .... As it was a little bit  to big for us everything we  did was staring onto the waves like mesmerized, eating, sleeping and swimming.

With this inspiration of the best surfing, we needed to get into the water as fast as possible. We went to the little island Nusa Lembogan. We were really lucky the swell dropped again and we could go surfing Shipwrecks. This wave scared us at first because of the shallow reef, but it turned out to be the best wave we surfed. We had two really nice sessions. Never before I took a wave where I didn´t see the actual wave, only the reef bottom trought the epic clear water.

 

I had a really nice time and I am happy that I surfed some really nice reef breaks, which scared me before. I improved my surfing, and I got lots of surf experience!

 

 

Now I am ready... the winter can come!!!!

 

Lena Stoffel (Roxy ski team)