|
|
Surfing in Sumbawa Island.
Lakey Sumbawa
Aman Gati Hotel is situated at Lakey Beach, just 10M
from Lakey Peak - this hotel echoes the quit
serenity that is Sumbawa. This garden paradise
get-away has sun, sand and surf of the famous Lakey
Beach. Hospitality here is personal and your host,
Gede Sudantha. will welcome you personally, ensuring
that Hotel Aman Gati Dompu is your home away from
home. The gardens at Hotel Aman Gati are an
explosion of colour and life, a rampage of tropical
greenary and blooming flowers. And like your home,
the gardens are here for your pleasure. In the
centre of the garden sits the focal point of the
Flamboyan Coffee Shop. Here is the meeting place of
our "locals", our friends and guests, coming
together to plan the day's activities over
breakfast, comparing bargaining skills, sharing a
snack and a cool drink or cool beer in the sunset
hour.
Aman Gati offers access to surf year round, with
some of the best times to surf this area, being
Dec-Mar.
To reach Sumbawa, you fly from Denpasar (Bali) to
Bima (Sumbawa) on Merpati Airlines. Once you have
arrived into Sumbawa, you are transferred to Lakey
Peak which is normally around 3 hours by Bimo
transfer.
West Sumbawa Surfing
This island measures about 280 kilometers long from
east to west and varies in width from 15 to 90
kilometers. Compared to Bali and Lombok, Sumbawa is
relatively uncrowded being about three times the
size of Bali with less than a fourth the population.
The people of Sumbawa are mostly farmers and
ranchers by trade. In times they prospered through
the sale of fine horses and fragrant woods (sapan
and sandalwood), but now they live a much rougher
life than do their Lombok and Bali neighbours to the
west. Sumbawa's distinctly Australasian climate,
flora and fauna lend a thorny, dry and scrub-cutting
edge to day-to-day life and survival. The three main
and most famous spots surfed on the west coast of
Sumbawa are Scar Reef, Super Suck and Yo-Yo's.
Scar Reef, just south of the Jelinggah Beach
headland, is a great left-hander and hollow wave
that is best at lower tides. Either side of low tide
will cause this wave to break further down the line
towards the jutting headland. Higher tides bring the
wave closer to the inside and cause it to section
considerably. Scar reef picks up plenty of swell
depending on direction, but it is particularly
good-and waves are hollow and superb-on a big south
swell.
Super Suck , off the village of Malok about a half
hour past the town of Taliwang, is the most famous
and sought after wave on this rugged coast. When
Super Suck is working, it is really working and will
make your trip to Sumbawa more than worthwhile. Big
walls of water break off a boil rock on the outside
of the bay and suck up into a thick and heavy left
that bowls and winds down the reef for a few hundred
meters. The inside section of this reef gets really
shallow.
Yo-Yo's, just south of Super Suck at Sekongkang Bay,
is your best West Sumbawa bet when everything else
is small. This beautiful bay offers two different
spots. The best is about 400 meters from a towering
cliff. It is a right, sometimes called The Hook,
which gets really good and holds up to six feet of
swell. This wave is fast and hollow and features
shifting peaks. It breaks and is rideable on all
tides except a dead-low one. The second wave here,
located right up against the cliff is called The
Wedge and can handle six to eight feet of swell
before closing out. It consists of a shifty and
mushy outside peak that winds into a fast and
bowling inside section. April to October, tradewinds
can blow Yo-Yo's out, so mornings are best.
|
 |
 |
|
Sumbawa Surfing |
Sumbawa Surfing |
|
 |
 |
|
Sumbawa Surfing |
Sumbawa Surfing |
|
|
