{"id":700954,"date":"2026-05-28T22:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700954\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:56:13","slug":"uluwatu-got-its-first-big-swell-of-the-year-and-it-didnt-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700954\/","title":{"rendered":"Uluwatu Got Its First Big Swell of the Year, and It Didn&#8217;t Disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324648\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-324648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ulu-670x388.jpg\" alt=\"Surfer sitting at Uluwatu\" width=\"670\" height=\"388\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-324648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It\u2019s Uluwatu time. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/favicon-surf.png\" alt=\"The Inertia\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s that time of year again. The time of year surfers on Bali wait for. Uluwatu time. The first big swell of the year rolled into the famous left-hander recently, and it did not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe finally had a big swell arrive in Bali,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=krIpT3ECCfM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote Surfers of Bali,<\/a> and with a light offshore breeze it was game on at Uluwatu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uluwatu can get crowded, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/surf\/uluwatu-outside-corner-was-basically-perfect-on-june-4th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">when it gets to a certain size<\/a>, the wheat is separated from the chaff. Even still, this particular swell gifted a few different options for the wheatier folks and a few others who lean towards the chaff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were a variety of wave shapes on offer with big long walls to intense, heaving tubes up the reef,\u201d Surfers of Bali continued. \u201cEither way, it was one of those days for those with plenty of experience and the ability to paddle out.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Uluwatu time. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot Well, it\u2019s that time of year again. The time of year surfers on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,13146,4805,105,15401],"class_list":["post-700954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bali","tag-indonesia","tag-technology","tag-uluwatu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700954","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=700954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}