Uluwatu, Bali 1973
Having travelled to Bali in August 1971, playing the grommet for the filming of ‘Morning of the Earth’, I was blessed to surf Uluwatu as an undiscovered jewel. The unusual visual surrounds, the people and their customs, the sounds, the commanding reef system, and the waves it sculpted combined to create a multi-sensory environment that this wide-eyed, 15-yea-rold surfer from the Northern Beaches of Sydney found alien, slightly confronting, completely enveloping; but also really exciting. Returning to the relatively inconsistent, mostly sand-bottomed surfing options of Sydney, few days went by where I didn’t flash back through that very special time, hoping I’d return to the Island of the Gods.
Time warp to 1973, now working for Tracks magazine, the opportunity arose to escape the city with photographer,…