Berawa

Berawa offers a range of options, including a good beach break and 2 reef breaks. The beach break has great options that peak up and run for up to 80m randomly all over the beach, so it’s a great option to surf with a crowd. The quality of waves is dependant on the sand location and the conditions on the day. It can offer high performance walls and the odd barrel on bigger days, and approachable mellow peelers on the smaller days. It breaks on all tides, on all swell directions from 1 ft up to 1.5 over head. So there is something for every one here!

Just to the north is a low quality reef, around 100m from the beach entry. It has a steep take off on a shallow ledge, which tries to barrel but tends to pinch as it peels into the channel. It then slowly peels a mellow right hander that needs to be overhead to link the take off to the beach, and a series of well placed cutbacks are required to maintain speed. Better on the lower tides when the channel is the shallowest, up to 1.5 over head.

Just to the south is another fickle reef that works in specific conditions. A moderate clean swell, and spring low tides will have fast barrelling right-handers peel for 60m. This wave is shallower than it looks and bouncing off the bottom on bigger days is common. The sand can move around a lot here affecting the quality of the wave.

Berawa is a local favourite, offering something for every level in most conditions.