Teluk Gerupuk

Fynn wanted to show us the most popular surf spot on Lombok: Gerupuk inside. He had been out there already twice and told us it is almost everytime quite crowded but also a spot with very nice waves (which should be not as big as in Grupuk outside where Mo and Fynn had been surfing the day before).

Mo decided to challenge himself and wanted to try out a smaller board. We went to the surf board shaper Banyu, who has his store in the village of Gerupuk and is also renting his boards. The three of us decided for some surf boards, fynn took a 7‘10, I took a 7‘6 and Mo took a 6‘6. already before having surfed it he fell in love with the shape and the design of the board.

When Wawan (our loyal friend 😅) brought us to the spot I was not really amused of what I was seeing there: about 40 people fighting for the waves in the water 😮‍💨 but we tried to paddle ourselves to the edge of the wave, where it was harder to catch the waves but also much less crowded. The surf session turned out to be very exhausting for me 😄 it was quite choppy and there was no channel to paddle ourselves back into the line up on our side. So we had to paddle against the breaking and broken waves all the time 😄 still I enjoyed the session and had some good waves with my board. Also tried out Mo‘s board which was really nice to surf (when you managed to do the take off 😄).

Coming out of the water Mo was hooked. He loved to ride the small board and while we had breakfast he even thought about buying the board and take it back to Germany (because for a unique self shaped board it is half the price here compared to Germany). In the end he decided against it, because we don’t even know whether it is possible to surf with such a small board in northern Germany and Denmark with our skill level.

Happy and sunburned we came back to our hostel, enjoyed our time at the pool and had a nice dinner in the evening. In the afternoon, Fynn finally had the chance to try Beef Rendang, an Indonesian special dish, where the meat is cooked very slow. Even if it didn’t look really appetizing because it seemed like the meat has been sunbathing in front of the Warung the whole day, Fynn said it was very delicious (but was still afraid of getting food poisoning).😃Read more