Bali Surf Road Trip to Lombok: Escaping the Kuta Beach Crowds

In November 2007, after spending two weeks searching Bali's Bukit peninsula for waves, Preston and I decided to give Lombok a try. My friend Eddy from Java had been there several times before and told me about the great waves near "the other" Kuta Beach. So we loaded up our motorbikes with surf boards and packed a couple t-shirts and extra clothes and headed up Bali's coastal road towards...

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Bali Surf Trip / Bukit, Jimbaran and South of Kuta November 2008

Beach sunsets, unpredictable waves, and low crowds were the norm for the off-season Bali surf trip in November 2008. I met up with Preston and Matt for one night in Kuta, then we headed south to find a beach bungalow away from the crowds. We found it at the Bukit peninsula around Jimbaran and ended up basing ourselves there for most of the month. The swell was pretty small for most of the time,...

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Exploring Bali's Green Rice Terraces: Ubud and Nearby Villages

When visiting Bali, be careful not to spend too much time on the beach! I should probably post this bit of advice to my own wall, because every time I leave the coast and head for the areas around Ubud I regret not visiting this part of the island more regularly. Aside from some shots around Ubud, this gallery includes some highlights of a trip to my friend Scholastica's village in Jatiluwih....

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Bali Surfing South of Kuta: Summer 2009

Preston spent the summer in Bali with me after finishing business school in L.A.. For two months we were able to get out on the waves pretty much every day from July into the middle of September. It was hard to put down the board and pick up the camera, but especially on days when the waves were too big for me to ride I swam out to shoot. This gallery covers the highlights of surfing Bali during...

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Big Waves in Bali: Padang Padang and Surfing the Big Swell

Big waves hit Bali on the weekend of September 12th, 2009. A few said it was the biggest swell to hit the island in seven years. I couldn't vouch for that, but I could tell the waves were definitely too big for me to handle on my 6'6" so I left the board at home and took the camera out to shoot some of the best surfers on earth spending some quality time inside the Padang Padang "Green Room". It...

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