surf travel 109

With high pressure occupying most of the Indian Ocean at the beginning of June and keeping any storms from aiming sizeable swell at Indonesia, you'd have been hard pressed to find anything over head-high of late.

And while fun-size, tropical surf does sound pretty appetizing to many of us (especially some of you swell starved East Coasters), that's hardly the type of surf you expect when you travel to Indonesia. The Northern Hemisphere equivalent would be like heading to the North Shore in December and getting neck-high Kammieland for a week or two.
Fortunately, things have tuned around quite a bit, with a large frontal low now advancing toward West Australia in the Southern Indian Ocean, with 35-50 knot wind and seas in excess of 35 feet. The resulting southwest swell will build into Bali on Tuesday the 16th and continue Wednesday the 17th, with the largest waves of the young season.

No, this won't be an end of the world swell, as it actually was much better aimed at Southwest Australia, but well overhead to double overhead surf will show at the well exposed reefs of Bali through mid next week, with larger waves to triple overhead+ at standout spots.

It looks like more swell is on the way after that too, with fairly solid waves potentially staying up all the way through the Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice on June 21st.