{"id":123826,"date":"2025-09-06T19:24:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123826\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:24:27","slug":"august-was-an-insanely-good-month-to-be-a-surfer-on-the-bukit-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123826\/","title":{"rendered":"August Was an Insanely Good Month to Be a Surfer on the Bukit Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-309766\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-309766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bali-670x388.jpg\" alt=\"August surfing Bukit\" width=\"670\" height=\"388\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-309766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you were on the Bukit Peninsula in August, you scored. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757186667_787_favicon-surf.png\" alt=\"The Inertia\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>August is generally a pretty damn good month to be a surfer on Bali\u2019s Bukit Peninsula. It\u2019s September already, so the YouTube channel Surf Raw Files decided it was a good time to take a look back through the clips from the month. When the creators with the channel did, they realized that this past August was even better than usual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery major wave was working on every swell,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FpjWhsprHvQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">they wrote<\/a>. \u201cUluwatu, Padang Padang, Impossibles, Bingin, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/surf\/balangan-perfect-waves-may-6th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Balangan<\/a>. The month started strong with back-to-back south swells. Then the biggest swell of the year hit on the fifth of August, and they ran the biggest competition at Padang Padang, and Uluwatu was all about having the big guns!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video you see here is a compilation of clips from Bali\u2019s best waves, and it\u2019s proof that you should probably start looking into a surf trip there for next August.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you were on the Bukit Peninsula in August, you scored. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot August is generally a pretty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,2347,63,87021,87022,87023,87024,87025,105,15401],"class_list":["post-123826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-august","tag-australia","tag-balangan","tag-bingin","tag-bukit-peninsula","tag-impossibles","tag-padang-padang","tag-technology","tag-uluwatu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}