We will missed our windsurfer friends so much. We got friends from around the world, from Japan, German, Netherland, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, even East European including Rusia, which we met in last two summer time. They all come to Bali for windsurfing holiday. We had some windsurfing session together at Ocean Cowboys Windsurf Center.
Here some pictures from 'Ocean Cowboys' at this moment. Zinc-Alu wall all around the windsurf center. No more place for us to hang out here. Ocean Cowboys has to move and we have to move as well, and we don't know where we have to move. I don't know if we could meet our friends again this summer or if our friends could find us. We all from local community now already spreading around.
Bikes parking front of Ocean Cowboys
Boy, Pedro's brother
The front Zinc-Alu wall
The front view, again
Secret door
Ourself already move to Ripcurl School of Surf at the Hotel Sanur Beach. They have enough space, they just do not have professional taste of how to arrange storage for the windsurf equipment, not at all. The only good thing they have is only the shower and the grass field for rigging the sail, which is actually part of the hotel. The rest is only a mesh. I really like to give them some advice like we did to Pedro, our friend the owner of Ocean Cowboys. He is not a really professional windsurfer, his place far smaller than Ripcurl and limited, but Pedro is such an open minded person, he is always ready to listen to more knowledge people. We could changed his place become a nice compact place to store more equipment for more windsurfer.
I am skeptical if Ripcurl School of Surf owned and managed by New Zealander would ready to listen from us specially me, an Indonesian woman. In my opinion they are not kind of person will do so.
The reason we have to stick around South of Sanur area, because Mertasari beach is the best windsurf spot in Sanur. Serangan East beach would be nice too, but the land belong to Tommy Soeharto's company and no body could touch it. What a shame, unfortunately, Ripcurl School of Surf is the one and only club at the South Sanur at this moment. A mixed club, windsurf, kitesurf, SUP, diving, Catamaran sailing, etc. all kind of watersport.
Kite surfer at Mertasari beach
The beach at the back ground is Serangan East Beach
I think I have to tell the story when I move to Ripcurl, because it's really funny story.
I am really surprise when the manager of Ripcurl Sanur named Luca, complaining when I register that we will store 2 boards, and 3 rigs for me and my husband (3 sails, 3 booms and 3 masts, small size, medium and big one, the medium one I share with my husband). I said, 'c'mon these are our minimum set up like when we are travelling'. So, at this moment I just put one board and two rigs. And the other guy name John explain me, 'please put the rig which you always use down here and the rest which you not use up there in the roof. I was chocked, I only could said to my self, 'if I am not use it I am not bringing it to the club, I will put it in the house somewhere in the garage'. Meine God, please forgive them, they just don't know about windsurfing.
Note : I am still dreaming to move to Sumba Island one day.
