SUPn holiday to Bali

Here is a little overview of our SUP trip to Bali. Sorry if it is a bit long (six minutes) but we were there for 3 weeks & had such a great time. I included all the hotel & pool shots for the non-surfing partners.
In another month or so we should have heaps more video of the surfing (our photographer friends are still travelling - lucky buggers!).
Cheers
Mel

Looks like a fantastic trip guys. So jealous!

Thanks Guys,
Yes, it was a fab trip. Not so fab to be home! We left 35 degree temperatures to arrive home into 8 degrees and a flat battery in the car!
Thank heavens long term parking has this happen all the time & they have a jump start kit at the kiosk!
We stayed in some awesome hotels: Sanur - Ari Putri, Balian - Pondok Pices, Bingan - Kembang Kuning & Kuta - Kuta Puri Bungalows. If anyone is going and wants more info, happy to provide! Can recommend them all.

Yeah, the crowd factor was a big shock!
Medewi 15 years ago, Jason was the only guy out most days. This time there were about 60-70 out! Jason went miles out to sea and got a few great waves. I only got a couple of smaller ones but loved it!
Balian most days varied from 15-50 but there were loads of peaks and take-off options.
Bingin has a take-off spot the size of a five cent piece and one day I counted 38 short boards on it. Needless to say we paddled off down the coast to Dreamland where Jason caught the biggest wave I have ever seen in 'real' life (ie not videos). For the 30 seconds after he disappeared down the face of this 3 storey monster I was having visions of my life as a single woman! I was sure it was gonna kill him.
But no, another few seconds and a tiny head popped up above the green lip & then disappeared down again, completely oblivious to my panic, happily surfing his way up and down along the wall! He calmly flicked off the end and paddled back out as if it was nothing but the grin on his face said it all. The fact that we didn't hang around for another also said a thing or two LOL!
Padang Padang left was just starting to fire the second time we went there (paddled around from Bingin). Probably 20 on the inside right and another15-20 on the left.
Impossibles always had 20+, but there are so many take-off spots that everyone got waves (all with the same ending of course! - it isn't called impossibles for nothing).
As the outer reef was firing we had Kuta halfway reef to ourselves. Perfect SUP waves bit over head high, not too fast. Perfect!

Probably best hotel with kids club is Dinasty Hotel in Tuban....
Don't know of any other one in that area!
Bye Jankie

Awesome vid Mel, looks like the travel bug has bitten and won't let go, whats next on the Agenda?

Nice vid mate. Brought back memories of Kuta arvos watching the sun go down with a cold Bintang or 20 at the huts on the beach - until the Javo's burnt them down.

thanks heaps for the info.

That was cool, great holiday snaps, surfing looked great

great vid, captured all the fun, nicely...

can anyone advise what the surf is like out from the legian beach hotel? is it any good for SUP? thanks

Thanks for all the positive comments.
We wrapped our boards in bubble-wrap first then put them into padded board bags. We made little nose & tail protectors out of styrofoam & cardboard. We put the 2 paddles together into one padded paddle bag. One of them was inside a terry towelling 'paddle sock' & the other was 'au naturale'.
All good both ways (very minor bump on the way over on the rail of my board but I did worse myself on the rocks at Medewi!).

Solarrez and ding tape be the trick

thanks for the virtual vacation excellent balisupvid

nice one Jason and Mel looks fun nice lefts