from cold to warm, theres no escape from the storm.
its wet season again in bali,
hot, humid days, stormy nights.
There's good and evil here, its taken me a few trips back and forth to figure this crazy place out.
theres no doubt about it i love it here, the waves, the temperature, the religion, but i've heard stories about bali 20-30 years ago, and can only imagine how beautiful and pure the island was before it was invaded by people like myself, westerners.
In my short visit
this time i managed to schedule in my normal escape to lakey peak for 3 weeks. The waves were fun as per usual.
we had 2 swells whilst i was there. A week into it i found out some bad news about the small town, that relies on surfers passing through. Westerners have traced gold in the forest about a mile inland from lakeys. They have the rights to dig and destroy miles of land surrounding lakeys. Locals are protesting in the the closest city about an hour away, but what they don't understand is that money talks, not just in indonesia, but anywhere in the world.
If more gold is found lakeys will be destroyed, the quant surfing paradise in which it once was will be taken over by the indulgent western world.
bali can only go one way now and we all know where this path leads.
money, money, money, thats what its all about.
Which leads to an increase of structure, traffic, fumes, greed and a decrease in natural beauty.
