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I have one in those dimensions; it's my favourite board. Instant connection and super carvy.
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Distinctly remember looking through the photos once a few years ago and saying "oh you missed the photo of my best barrel" and he said "no I didn't, it's that one". Heartbreaking stuff.
Video can smash your ego just when you think your surfing like Kelly.
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The opposite to viagra is called Bintang.
Haha
I think the best thing about bali is pulling up at an intersection with 30 scooters trying to get through.
Give them your best smile and you’ll get 29 of the biggest smiles back.
The only one that won’t smile is some borscht eating Boris that should be back in Russia stopping Ukrainian bullets.
Indo mart only re charge and only the ones with a mandiri eftpos terminal.
Hahaha I know the feeling well
Ah ok. I did get one from Indo Mart at domestic airport. Maybe just airport??
Mate Indo’s are so humble and their sense of humour is unparalleled! To quote Steve Cooney from Indo 32. “ Indo has two constants, the waves and the people… and to be honest I find it hard not going back there “.
Ukrainians also eat borscht … just saying : )
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Fact: Indomaret supplied 95% of my non-working footwear for the past decade and a half.
need to scrap the jab
100% how the fuck do they still require 2 x jabs to enter Indonesia. Same for USA
Surely the vaxx requirement can’t last much longer.
We’re off tomorrow but saved the best for last. Light trades, two out at four foot Impossibles with the odd bigger set (which I waited for). Snowboarding on the 6’10 DS, and I thought to myself this board has changed my life.
Coming in I met a friendly chap from Vic with a 7’6 DS, so we compared and chatted.
Set-up as quad IB?
Yep. Faithful McCallum quads.
I'm gunna get a set on your recommendation.
Hope they work for you too. Been running them in my Pyzalien 2 too while here. Worked a treat at low tide hollow Binging.
Indonesia is very unpredictable so always hard to say, but i wouldn't be surprised if they keep the requirement long term.
The way id assume they look at it is, if your not vaxed and get Covid and in the unlucky minority who does get real sick, they dont want you(a foreigner) clogging up a bed in a hospital.(that could go to an Indonesian)
Did you just bring the 2 boards?
Just those two, yes. Figured they’d cover me from 2-8ft, and make it easier to travel.
In full dry season I’d love to bring a bigger board.
Surely you’re taking this piss here Indo.
@burleigh , indo may be right on the permanent requirement, they definitely do things differently. Domestic flight travel for local children requires them to be fully vaccinated ( whatever that means ) I’m surprised you haven’t just got a shonky Dr to sign the papers saying you’re fully vaxed .
Reckon Indo is correct, out of main tourist areas 95% locals still wearing masks in shops etc and they are taking temperatures as you enter ...
Easy to get Dr to sign off that you have been vaxxed though, how some expats I believe got around not getting vaccinated.
Why would they relax rule? It's was busy up they less than 2 weeks ago when I was up there, and I reckon 2023 will be nuts....
Id say indo and co. are dead right
not only because of things metioned above, but also because, relatively, indo invested a lot of money in its vaccine program, and also, because there is also a lot of (unhealthy) chinese influence in indo too
I would also add, I reckon corona is now doing constant laps of indo, in constant rotation, its hard to know, because everything in indonesia is 'the flu', but indomaret isn't only a great source of footwear... it's a great indicator of public health... it seems you can almost see the waves of corona, judging by the dry nasty cough that one of the staff members has while the other prioritises serving the customers...
locals wearing masks is a good indicator too I reckon, not in malls, but in general public, there seems to be waves of diligent mask wearing too, all about the grapevine over docs. and testing...
interestingly, bules pretty much never wearing masks at all unless required
plenty of bule holding out on vaccines, believing indo 'needs' to relax restrictions for the sake of tourism and the economy... wishful thinking... the place is heaving, they don't 'need' anyone...
I know a guy that just travelled through indonesia and india un-vaxxed for a 3 month period - it can be done, but geez what a nightmare in hassles he faced
you sure you cannot travel US burliegh?
that last tablet magazine artcle i posted had a very revealing, if not subtle, last paragragh. where the CDC or whoever made a pretty significant announcement, without actually making an announcement... more an under the radar admission i guess... an announcement would be admitting too much... that they can no longer discriminate against the un-vaxxed, when the jury is now in on the abject uselessness of vaccines
domestic tourists must have 2x vax and booster to travel
I agree with a lot of what Sypkan says but i think there is also others aspects to why Indonesians in many areas are still compliant in mask wearing and other precautions.
Indo mostly Java and Bali got hit really hard by Wuhan & Delta, in most cases people knew people who have died or got really sick from Covid, for instance in my wife's neighbourhood quite a few people died, they never went to hospital as scared of not being able to afford it or even stigma of having Covid so they died at home, everyone then saw the body taken away, so to them Covid is a very real thing, even if Omicron is much less severe strain i guess they still have a fear of mutation or something.
If you go to other areas of Indonesia that were never hit hard by Wuhan or Delta or in some cases somehow escaped things altogether like say Nias & Telos, you wont see any mask wearing its like Covid never happened.
I guess in Aust we sit in a place in between, where we saw stats of deaths everyday from wuhan/delta that was dramatised on Australia but most of us dont know anyone in Australia personally who died or got real sick so while its kind of real, we are still a bit sceptical in a way, and then most of us have now had Omicron and are like argh okay that's it?
BTW. To picture or understand things better most Indo neighbourhoods are tiny house's wall to wall often with narrow gangs(alleyways) only big enough for motorbikes or a car if lucky, so what happens in these communities is everyones business, nothing goes unnoticed, its not like Australia where you can live next door to someone and not even know them or what happens in their life.
You can't get into the US unvaccinated still.
Looks like there's another wave going through Sydney ATM, a few people I know have got it. Most are fine, but one saying it was as bad as their first experience with Omicron, ie shitty.
it's all about saving face now from politicians and so called health officials cause of the money they wasted
Would have paddled right past each other at some point I reckon IB. I saw the bloke with the 7'6" DS on the beach at Bingin yesterday around lunchtime. Great looking board.
Exactly.
Hah, would have loved to say hello. Might have missed me, but not the DS; it’s flouro yellow :-)
How pretty were conditions late yesterday arvo!
They Happy with Tourist Numbers
https://thebalisun.com/bali-will-smash-tourism-targets-by-end-of-2022/
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32% from Europe is crazy. Would be a few Russian onlyfans workers in that lot.
That was the idea, Udo. And it’s saved me from losing the board a few times when surfing iffy spots.
32% from Europe is crazy.
BTW. That other link about calling for VOA to be free again, IMHO that was and is such a silly move, like seriously who is going to be put off going to Bali by $50USD for a 28 day visa even for a family of 4, if you can afford the flights and accomodation and a holiday in general then you can afford a visa, the revenue from that is pretty decent.
In 2018 there was 6.5 million foreigns arrive in Bali from overseas alone and 15.8 million in Indonesia.
Even if we say round that to 10 million as i think there is shorter/cheaper visas and you have other visas and you might give close countries like Singapore or Timor or even Malaysia exemptions as you get weekenders etc and they los likely do the same for Indonesians.
10 million x $50 USD is still $500 million USD that sort of money can do a lot in Indonesia, why give it up.
Plus the rhetoric is always they are after a tourist with money demographic not backpackers.
Dont they just Add $50 Visa cost into Price of Air Fare ?
Guess you can't refuse like the old days when they tried to hit surfers up for $50 for each extra board you had, mate and I got dragged off into a private room.
We refused to pay and they let us go, Only had 1 extra board but $50 was a lot back then lol.
I think that’s what they did with the old 200,000rp departure tax .
Seems like they are not really trying or thinking about attracting tourists outside of Bali. Why not give options at and international airport on arrival of 30, 60, and 90 day visas with the price increasing for each option. I extended my 30 days visa through agent and was without my passport for 10 days. No dramas for me as was just hanging in Bali. Not good if I wanted to island hop or fly anywhere in indo. They exclude all backpacker style tourists as technically you cannot travel without passport. When I first started working up there late 90's you got 60 day on arrival. This was great for general tourism as you could fly into say Medan, do Bukit Lawang, Toba then work your way down through south Sumatra, then onto Java, do the trail there, Bandung, Joyga, Bromo etc onto Bali through Lovina etc etc. This kind of trip is not possible to do properly in 30 days and you could not do it without your passport in your possession. Early 2000's pre bomb Lovina was bustling back packer centre with crew hanging there after travelling down through Java . Don't think it ever bounced back, same as Jogya, use to be main travel centre, last time I was there, pretty dead. Anyway Indo is an amazing country outside of surfing with heaps to do and see, but they don't make it easy for the lucrative traveller market. Compare with Thailand (backpacker Disney) and they could learn a lot.
Semi Legalising Pot as Thailand have done could help also, but cannot see that happening... Ha
Also if tourists paid up front at airport, they could save heaps with staffing administration etc with the amount of crap that goes on just to extend tourist visa at immigrasi.
haha good one
Might save some time at airport applying in advance, not sure if you can apply for 60 day tourist visa in advance like pre covid days when you could get it from embassies in Australia. Bit weird that you have to fck around so much with 30 days then extension for 30 days when they are promoting other visa’s…………….The regular visa on arrival is available at a number of entry points. You can apply for an electronic Visa on Arrival (e-VOA) in advance only if you are entering Indonesia at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta or Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali. https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/asia/indonesia
Looks like 30 days is it , wish they would get it together for 30,60or 90 days tourist visa . https://molina.imigrasi.go.id/front/faq
Yep, not doing the Indonesian tourism industry any favours beside the short term holiday market....
Covid is the biggest fraud in the history of humanity, wake up! Screw the Indo wank, Philippines pisses over that dump every time.
So the Phillipines pisses all over Indonesia in the waves department, must be the best kept all time secret ever .
Comedy Gold!
mixie six..............six short of a Dozen i think
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