{"id":617,"date":"2026-07-19T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T23:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.komuneresorts.com\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:30:39","slug":"the-wave-that-never-sleeps-why-i-built-komune-at-keramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.komuneresorts.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/19\/the-wave-that-never-sleeps-why-i-built-komune-at-keramas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wave That Never Sleeps: By\u00a0Hotel Komune’s Co-founder, Tony Cannon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hotel Komune \u00b7 Keramas, Bali \u2014 Founder\u2019s Notebook<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirty years of surfing, one extraordinary wave, and the philosophy behind what I believe is Bali\u2019s best surf resort.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Tony Cannon. Founder, Hotel Komune Resort & Beach Club Bali<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Chapter 1: Why I\u2019m Writing This<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It happens most weeks at the beach club<\/a>. A guest gets talking to me over dinner, usually with a set breaking fifty metres from the table, maybe a barrel peeling under the floodlights behind us. I can see the question forming before they ask it. They\u2019ve been here a few days by then. They\u2019ve noticed things. That the resort disappears into jungle when you look back at it from the water. That the staff all seem to be from the same village, and treat guests like close family, because in a sense they are. That somehow there\u2019s a world-class wave breaking in front of their room and no concrete jungle around it. And eventually it comes out, the question I\u2019ve heard more than any other in eighteen years here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/p>\n\u201cHow on earth did you manage to build this – in a place like this\u201d<\/strong>
– THE QUESTION MANY GUESTS ASK
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This whole piece is the long answer. The short answer took a surf magazine story, a white snake, six Balinese brothers, an afternoon of high-powered black coffee on a concrete floor, and eighteen years of stubborn refusal to build the way developers normally build in Bali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a third question I\u2019ll answer along the way, and it\u2019s the one the internet asks on my behalf. Is Komune the best surf resort in Bali? These days everyone seems to have an opinion about Komune. I figured it was about time the bloke who actually built the place had one too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I\u2019ve decided to answer the question myself. It\u2019s a long answer. Nearly thirty years of Bali, eighteen years of Keramas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, my cards on the table. I\u2019m a civil engineer by training and a developer by trade. I\u2019ve spent three decades building things across Australia and in Bali, so I know exactly how developers think, which is precisely why parts of this story will be uncomfortable for some of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But before any of that, and after all of it, I\u2019m a surfer. Everything I\u2019ve built or done in life started with spending as much time in the water as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s my philosophy on what actually makes a great surf resort, and it has almost nothing to do with what the glossy brochures measure. Thread counts don\u2019t matter. Fountains and marble lobbies don\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These three things matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people.<\/strong> Is your family having a better holiday than you are? Do the locals want you there? Did the resort make the break and the village better or worse than it found them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wave. <\/strong>Is it genuinely world class, and can you surf it morning, noon and night without a motorbike, car, a cliff or a mile-long paddle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your time.<\/strong>\u00a0How many waves do you actually catch per day of your holiday? Not how many the resort\u2019s Instagram catches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the whole test. By the end of this you\u2019ll be able to score Komune against it yourself. I\u2019ll tell you now where I stand, because you maybe already know: I do believe this is the best surf resort in Bali, and I\u2019ll go further \u2014 Komune, in my highly conflicted opinion, is one of the best places to be a surfer anywhere on earth. As I built it, feel free to discount me accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on, and check my thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 2: Thirty Years Chasing Waves<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Long Apprenticeship<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I learned to surf in the dodgy surf of the south coast of Adelaide. Cold water, shifting banks, plenty of nothing days. Our local was called “Dribbleton” for good reason. Nobody learns to love surfing in perfect waves. You learn it in bad ones, because if you can stay obsessed through an Adelaide winter, the obsession is real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What kept me going were the annual trips to South Stradbroke Island, surfing TOS. Warm water, sand-bottomed barrels, and the discovery that how good waves could actually be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those trips did what a thousand career advisors couldn\u2019t: they made the decision for me. I moved to the Gold Coast, and I\u2019ve built my life around the Goldy coastline ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funny how these things loop back. Thirty-odd years later I\u2019m developing an eco resort on that same island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The engineering degree came from Adelaide University, and the career went from construction and project management into property development, with the first development a six pack of units in Hawthorne, Brisbane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the late nineties and 2000s I worked with the late, great Gold Coast developer Brian Ray on some serious projects, including the redevelopment of the Mt Hotham ski resort in the Victorian snowfields. Building accommodation within a natural wonder, designed for people who structure their entire day around conditions. I didn\u2019t know it yet, but I was doing my apprenticeship for Keramas.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The author bottom turns on a smaller Keramas day, on the kind of forgiving, playful wave Tony says many people never realise sits alongside the barrels.<\/sub><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Bali entered the picture properly in 1994. I went over with Alana, my wife now, though back then we\u2019d only just met. We stayed at a resort in Jimbaran, and she found out first-hand what life with a surfer looks like: me making the trek up to Ulus every day while she waited patiently at the resort for me to come back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uluwatu back then was still relatively untouched. Nothing happening after dark, nowhere to stay other than a couple of warungs clinging to the cliff. My first surf out there, I paddled out by myself in the dark dawn mist into four to six foot surf and waited an hour or more to get a wave. When it finally came, I got a crazy big backhand barrel. One wave. It cost me an hour of waiting, and it locked in my love of Bali and the Bukit for life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I kept coming back, and I watched the island change in real time. I remember land on the Bukit jumping from 10k a block to 50k. Ten years later it was a million plus. Every surfer who loves Bali has watched that curve with the same mixed feelings: the place you love becoming the place everyone loves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/p>\n\u201cIf I ever built the place, the family wouldn\u2019t be waiting. The family would be having a better holiday than the surfer.\u201d
<\/strong>– THE KOMUNE DESIGN BRIEF, IN ONE LINE<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Two ideas were forming on those trips, and they\u2019d eventually collide at Keramas. The first was that I wanted to build a surf resort, the way I\u2019d helped build one for skiers at Hotham, but for my own tribe. The second came from watching Alana wait at that Jimbaran resort. That became the entire design brief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 3: The White Snake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Day I Found Keramas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In 2008 I read a story in a surf magazine that changed my life. Taylor Steele and Andy Irons had been flying in a chopper around Bali and found a magical wave on the east coast. For a natural footed surfer who\u2019d spent fifteen years watching the west of the island get carved up, the idea of a world-class right hand wave hiding in plain sight on the east coast was electric. I told Alana I was getting on the next plane to go and find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I flew out the next day and hired a driver who just happened to end up being Tony Smith\u2019s partner, the late Subina, in Finn\u2019s Beach Club. We worked our way up the east coast, and eventually he took me to a big temple (Masceti), where some locals were trying to sell me the land right next door to it. Which, for the record, you can\u2019t do. Building beside a temple like that is completely illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a miserable grey day. I stood there looking out over the rice paddy to a black sand beach with no wave to speak of. Flat. Nobody out. Nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tony Cannon\u2019s first visit to Keramas, August 2008.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

I remember standing in that paddy genuinely wondering if I was doing the right thing, whether I\u2019d flown all this way on the strength of a magazine story to buy rice fields in front of a beach that showed me absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/p>\n\u201cThen a white snake came sliding through the rice paddy next to the temple.\u201d
<\/strong>– THE MOMENT EVERYTHING CHANGED<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned it to the locals, and everything changed. Goosebumps, all round. That\u2019s the temple snake, they told me, and no one except priests are meant to see them. In Bali, a holy white snake appearing is not a small thing. Suddenly I wasn\u2019t just another foreigner sniffing around land. More people wandered over to ask what I was doing there, and I told them the truth: I was looking for a spot called Keramas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They pointed me half a kilometre down the beach. I walked into a beachfront warung and got talking to a local bloke Komang who told me his family owned the land I was asking about. Not just any family. The head family of Keramas. He offered to take me back to the village to talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Keramas warung, 2008.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The same warung, 2025 \u2014 the Ida boys and local legend Charlie from Kuta Lines.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Offerings prepared for a village ceremony near the temple grounds \u2014 the same spiritual world Tony walked into on the day he found Keramas.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tony and Luke at the Komune ground breaking ceremony, 2010.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Their home was a traditional multi-pavilion Balinese compound housing several related families, built around a massive and genuinely beautiful family temple. We all sat down on the concrete floor, me and the six brothers, and spent the whole afternoon chatting away, fuelled by high-powered Bali black coffee. Hours of chatting about. Family, religion, waves, land, life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At some point in that afternoon, the brothers said something I\u2019ll never forget. They told me they had been waiting for me. They\u2019d envisioned that this day was meant to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make of that what you will. I\u2019m an engineer. I deal in soil reports and structural loads, and I can\u2019t explain a temple snake or a family who\u2019d already decided I was coming. But I can tell you that by the end of that afternoon, sitting on a concrete floor with six brothers and a bloodstream full of Bali coffee, we\u2019d crunched a deal for the land. That first parcel has since grown into the 4.5 hectares Komune sits on today.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A copy of the simple one-page agreement made in August 2008 with the six brothers that brought Komune to life.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Tony Cannon, Simon Jenour and the Budi family signing a key lease agreement <\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Tony with his namesake, \u201cAnthony Cannon\u201d Gusti \u2014 grandson of the second of the six brothers, born the day the land lease agreement was signed and named after Tony.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the part people find hardest to believe. I committed to buying land in front of a world-class wave I had never seen break, that at the time took three hours from Kuta to get to on a goat track road. On the one day that mattered, Keramas showed me absolutely nothing. Grey sky, flat ocean, empty lineup. I bought it anyway, on the strength of a magazine story, a white snake, six brothers and my gut. I trusted my instincts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I finally surfed Keramas later in 2008. And I\u2019ll tell you something that surprises everyone: in my opinion the lineup was harder to get a wave in back then than it is now. Before Komune existed, Keramas was a favourite with professional surfers. Kelly Slater. Jamie O\u2019Brien. Taj Burrow. The pros had found it long before the surf magazines did, which tells you everything about the wave and the truth about crowds and resorts that I\u2019ll get to. But first, let me tell you what this wave actually is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 4: The Wave Itself<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Why Keramas Is One of the World\u2019s Great Waves<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Strip away everything we have built here and ask the only question that matters to a surfer: how good is the wave?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keramas is a combination of everything a surfer would want in a wave, and I don\u2019t say that lightly, because waves that do everything are incredibly rare. Most great waves are specialists and great only a handful of days. Keramas is a freak all-rounder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It starts with the barrels. Keramas has genuine barrel sections, and on the right day it will offer you two big barrels on a single wave. Then, instead of shutting down or flattening into a channel like a lot of barrelling reefs, it opens into a super high performance wall to the sand that lets you do full-speed turns or take to the air. Barrel, turn, barrel, air, all on one ride. That\u2019s why you\u2019ll see world tour surfers grinning like groms out here. The wave is a complete repertoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Louie Egan deep on his first Keramas visit. Safe to say they were sold.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tony Cannon off the top at Keramas \u2014 on its day the wave offers two barrel sections and a high-speed wall on a single ride, a combination he calls a \u201cfreak all-rounder.\u201d<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Then there\u2019s the consistency, which for a travelling surfer matters way more than perfection. Keramas works easily 330 days a year. I\u2019d argue it\u2019s probably the world\u2019s most consistently good wave, with waves better than your local at some point during each day. And the best part is that from November through April it pumps, with whole days of perfect conditions. That timing is the quiet miracle of the place: the wet season, when the famous west coast breaks are blown out and half of surf tourism goes home, is also when Keramas can be its best .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the access, which is where Keramas goes from great wave to once-in-a-lifetime gift from mother nature. Keramas is a proper reef break, but it sits right on the beach. You don\u2019t climb down a huge cliff. You don\u2019t paddle a mile out to sea. Nearly every other serious break in Bali makes you earn your session before you\u2019ve caught a wave. Here, you walk off black sand, a few paddles through the sketchy keyhole, and you\u2019re into the lineup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tides and timing: the crazy thing about this wave is it can turn magical at any time of day. Mostly it favours a rising mid tide, but depending on swell direction, every tide can work. From eighteen years of watching here, something the guidebooks won\u2019t tell you: my most amazing surfs at Keramas have been at sunset, the exact opposite of what everyone assumes about the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The range is enormous. Two foot on a rising tide is still a genuinely fun wave. At the other end, it gets as serious as you want like a reverse Chopes. The biggest wave I\u2019ve ever seen ridden here came at night, under lights, and that story deserves its own chapter (see below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want independent evidence rather than a founder\u2019s word, the World Surf League (WSL) chose Keramas for Championship Tour events three times: the Oakley Pro in 2013 and the Corona Bali Protected in 2018 and 2019. Any wave chosen three times for a world tour contest is chosen for a reason, and Keramas delivered every single time. Joel Parkinson won that 2013 event as reigning world champion, with the world\u2019s best watching huge barrels from the beach club fifty metres away. The legendary Mad Hueys 1 star comps were held year after year with an all star cast in flawless conditions as did the inagural Fisher Bali Pro (self) named after global DJ Paul Fisher.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Joel Parkinson, chaired Balinese-style through the crowd after winning the 2013 Oakley Pro at Keramas as reigning world champion.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Mick Fanning in full flight at the 2013 Oakley Pro \u2014 the world tour\u2019s first visit to Keramas, watched from the beach club fifty metres away.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

How does it stack up against the Bali names everyone knows? Uluwatu and Padang Padang are amazing, world-famous waves and I love them. But they involve long walks and long paddles, and your whole day bends around getting to and from them. Canggu gives you convenience, but it\u2019s nowhere near the standard of wave and insanely crowded. Keramas is the only place in Bali, and one of very few on earth, where a genuinely world-class wave breaks fifty metres from your bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who\u2019s it for? Keramas has the full range \u2014 super fun and playful for intermediates on a small day, right up to super advanced, critical waves that demand fitness and total commitment on a big one. Beginners can still have a great holiday here, with more mellow waves nearby when Keramas gets hectic, and as you\u2019ll see, most of our guests never surf at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What should you ride? Board length and volume won\u2019t save you much when it\u2019s got size. You have to be fit, and you have to knife your board down the wave at takeoff. My own quiver is a 6\u20191\u201d epoxy around 30 litres as the go to, a 6\u20192\u201d PU around 34 litres as the step-up, and an epic 5\u20198\u201d carbon fibre fish for the smaller or bit onshore days. Boardshorts, year round. No booties \u2014 you step straight off sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And one warning I give every guest. The biggest mistake first-timers make at Keramas is trying to swim in the open ocean. Don\u2019t. It\u2019s a powerful reef break with real current, not a swimming beach. Surf it, watch it, and swim in the pools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 5: Building Without Ruining<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Building Komune Without Ruining Keramas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Surfers hate developers. I know, because I\u2019m both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every surfer has watched a break they love get ruined: the headland carved up, the river mouth choked, the vibe of a place bulldozed along with the trees. I\u2019ve felt that hostility from the inside of the tribe, and I knew from day one that if I got this wrong, I wouldn\u2019t just have a failed resort. I\u2019d have my name on the destruction of one of the world\u2019s great waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And make no mistake, the destruction was coming. When I first came to Keramas in 2008, this stretch of coast was under serious risk of being totally ruined by bad, ill-considered development. This site was always going to be developed by someone, at some stage. The only question was whether it would be developed by people who understood what was at stake in that lineup, or by a spreadsheet in an office tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2009 I brought a guy to Bali for whom, by that time, I had developed four Fitness First gyms, worked with on the planning of an eco retreat at Gwinganna, and who had acquired homes in several of my developments. His name was Tony de Leede. Tony didn\u2019t surf, but he was one of the world\u2019s most respected wellness entrepreneurs. I didn\u2019t know it at the time, but from his first trip he was seeing another side of Komune that I was completely missing. Wellness. More on that later. Since TD didn\u2019t surf, I was surprised by his keen interest in being part of this project, and like the deal with the six brothers, we soon became equal partners.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The two Tonys \u2014 de Leede and Cannon \u2014 in ceremonial dress at a Komune blessing.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

One of the first things we did after that was bring in a surfer I\u2019d long admired, not just for his surfing but for his intelligence and the respect he carries in the global surf community: Luke Egan. Luke came in as a partner alongside me and Tony de Leede, with a clear job. Make sure Komune kept its surfing and environmental credentials, and its respect, particularly with the Balinese community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first things Luke did tells you everything about why I wanted him. Before we put pen to paper on a single design, he set up meetings for me with Rizal Tandjung and Tipi Jabrik, two legends at the top of Indonesian surfing. We laid out the proposal and asked for their honest advice. Both understood the reality: the Balinese surfing community was better off dealing with surfers developing this wave than with a huge resort chain owner in America or China who\u2019d never paddled out anywhere. Examples of that occurring abound in Bali.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tony, Luke, Andrew and Nova at an early sit-down with the Gianyar Regent and government figures. Before Komune broke ground, its team went looking for permission and advice, not just approvals.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/p>\n\u201cIt was an honour for the Balinese surfing community to accept us as part of their fabric, not the other way around.\u201d Luke Egan
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Tipi\u2019s most critical piece of advice became our permanent Komune policy. Protect the wave and keep the existing surf culture. Keep the Ida Boys\u2019 warung and make sure local Indonesian surfers can always get a cheap jaffle and a plate of noodles and feel completely at home on their own beach. So the warung stayed, and the family kept their place of work: the food, the board storage, hire and repairs, the surf photos. It\u2019s still there today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the lineup, we made the village three promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One,<\/strong> we would build our team from Keramas locals. That meant creating a massive training program, because our village was a long way from Bali\u2019s established resort belt and hospitality experience didn\u2019t exist here. Today, more than 80 per cent of our staff come from the local village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two,<\/strong>\u00a0we would donate 5 per cent of our profit after tax, every year, to the Keramas village charity for social programs and environmental management. These donations feed many village families during Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three,<\/strong> we would work extremely hard to stop Keramas ending up like other parts of Bali: overbuilt concrete jungles. We wanted to lead by example and prove you could run a profitable business that, from the surf or from the outside, looks like beautiful tropical jungle, with only a few traditional warungs visible and every building hidden within the landscape. To that end we planted 13,000 plants and created our own microclimate.<\/p>\n\n\n

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November 2010: Tony and team at the socialisation meeting with Keramas village locals, hearing their concerns and agreeing on how the project would proceed.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The river got the same treatment. The river is what created this surf break, and Bali\u2019s rivers carry a heartbreaking amount of plastic. So we designed and installed the first river pollution trap in Bali, and pushed the thinking behind it through our One Village Plastic Free charity. Our theory is simple: if every operator looked after their own little patch, Bali\u2019s rivers could be clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shoring up the riverbank with rock gabions during the early works \u2014 engineering done to protect the break and ensure the river flow would not be impacted.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The gabion wall taking shape by hand. The river feeding Keramas is what built the wave; keeping it clean became a resort-wide commitment.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the truth about protecting a wave is that the job is never finished. In December 2024, a scheme backed by global interests tried to develop a huge marina right where the Keramas surf break is. A marina in 10 foot surf zone?? On top of one of the ten best waves in the world. Luckily, the grassroots village community rose up and squashed that proposal. The village won that round, and I\u2019ve never been prouder of this place and the community. But I\u2019ll be honest with you: we operate in a constant state of fear and anxiety about what scheme will come up next. Anyone who tells you a great wave is ever permanently safe hasn\u2019t been paying attention to Bali and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 6: The Real Luxury<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Why Luxury Means Time, Not Marble<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The luxury hotel industry measures itself in marble, thread counts and butlers. For a surfer, all of that is decoration. There is only one luxury that matters, and it\u2019s the one no five-star chain can manufacture: time on the wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about what a normal day of surf travel in Bali actually looks like. Drive an hour. Walk twenty minutes. Climb down a cliff. Paddle. Surf your window before the tide kills it, then do the whole thing in reverse, and call that your one session. Most surf holidays are logistics with a bit of surfing attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/p>\n\u201cThree minutes from a beachfront suite to sitting at the top of the Keramas lineup. In boardshorts, barefoot, across sand.\u201d
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That single fact rearranges an entire holiday. Our guests surf three or four times a day, picking the eyes out of the conditions. Dawn patrol in the glass. Back for breakfast. A tide-timed session mid-morning or an afternoon glass-off, and if the fever takes you, a night surf under lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when you\u2019re not surfing, the wave is still with you. All the beachfront pool suites overlook the break. You can watch the surf from your bed, from your own pool, at breakfast, or at dinner while the night crew trades barrels under the floodlights. When it\u2019s big, you don\u2019t just see it, you can feel the sets hitting the reef from your bed. There is no better alarm clock on this planet.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The resort taking shape: young palms planted along the boardwalk to the beach club, part of the 13,000 plants that now hide the buildings from the surf.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Which brings me to the night surfing, and the story I promised you. It\u2019s also the story of the dumbest thing Luke Egan and I have ever done, so enjoy it at our expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a vision to create the world\u2019s first permanent night surfing facility. What we didn\u2019t have was any idea what we were doing! We bought three massive floodlights, bolted them on top of our existing restaurant, about six metres off the ground, switched them on one evening and paddled out into six foot of onshore slop at dead low tide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six metres of elevation meant the light glanced sideways across the surf, and the visibility out there was the craziest thing I\u2019ve experienced in the ocean. Neither of us had any idea where we were. We both took off on our first waves, both fell out of the sky completely blind, and both hit the razor-sharp reef. First wave each. We ended up on the beach together, licking our wounds, two grown men who\u2019d spent their lives around waves, bleeding in the dark under our brilliant new lights.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Palms going in for the beach club pad.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

So we did what we should have done first: got expert help. I looked up who supplies the lights at the MCG in Melbourne and rang them. I don\u2019t think the blokes who light the Melbourne Cricket Ground had ever fielded a phone call quite like it. They told us straight: what we wanted was very hard, and it would take two 25-metre stadium light arrays, the kind you\u2019d see towering over a major stadium. To everyone\u2019s credit, we all agreed to give it a crack. And night surfing was born.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The author exiting a dark wave on a night session at Keramas \u2014 the payoff for two 25-metre stadium towers and one very strange phone call to the MCG.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Opening night, the ocean decided to christen it properly: ten to fifteen foot. Bruce Irons, the Mad Hueys, Fuel TV and a pack of pros paddled out in front of a thousand people, plenty of whom were getting pinballed down the beach by the massive sets. Somewhere in that madness, Lee Wilson rode the biggest wave I\u2019ve ever seen at Keramas, a fifteen-footer, at night. He pulled into a huge barrel and that was the last we saw of him for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lee Wilson on a fifteen-foot wave at the night surfing launch \u2014 the biggest wave Tony has ever seen ridden at Keramas.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Bruce Irons at the night surf launch, mobbed by fans \u2014 captured on Instagram, 2013-style.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Bruce and Dean \u201cHazza\u201d towing in under the lights at the night surf launch.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what I mean when I say luxury means time, not marble. A world first, born from two idiots bleeding on a reef, that means the wave in front of your room never sleeps. Marble can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The building and marketing team sharing a beer on completion of stage one, 2012 \u2014 Tony, Wayne, Panos and Lauro.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Chapter 7: The Other 80 Per Cent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Why Families Love Komune<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Remember 1994? Alana waiting patiently at that Jimbaran resort while I trekked up to Ulus every day? That memory is the entire design brief for Komune. When we sat down to plan this place, my instruction to myself was exact: design Komune specifically so that my family would be exceptionally happy to be here for two weeks straight while I surf, and would not even notice or care that I\u2019m out in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u2019s how that design brief closed its own loop. Alana now spends several months a year at Komune with Albe, Milah and Nilaya. All our kids have grown up here, and they are genuinely made to feel part of the family \u2014 not by a hospitality program, but by the people of this village. The woman who once waited at a Jimbaran resort for a surfer to come back doesn\u2019t wait anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the dirty secret of the surf resort business, and hardly anyone in it has worked this out: you\u2019re not really building for the surfer. The surfer needs a wave, a board and a bed. You\u2019re building for everyone the surfer loves.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tony, Alana and Albe at Komune, Bali, 2019.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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DJ Fisher up to his usual antics at the Komune opening party, 2012.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

So we built for them, properly. Seven different yoga shalas. <\/a>A fully equipped Merrithew Pilates studio. <\/a>A serious gym<\/a>. A village green sports ground. A longevity centre.<\/a> A day spa. A hair and beauty salon<\/a>. A boutique. A kids club with its own skate park<\/a>, where I spend half my mid-mornings having a skate with my son between surfs. And directly across the road, the amazing Bali Safari Park<\/a>, which buys any parent a full day of hero status. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/p>\n\u201cOnly about 20 per cent of our guests actually surf. The rest are surfing families, wellness retreat guests and wedding groups.\u201d
<\/strong>– THE NUMBER THAT PROVES THE PHILOSOPHY WORKS<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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That was never an accident. And it produces a beautiful side effect for the surfers reading this: a beachfront resort at a world-class wave that doesn\u2019t flood its own lineup, because four out of five guests never paddle out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The families aren\u2019t the compromise at Komune. They\u2019re the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 8: Recovery is Training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Surfing, Wellness and Longevity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

People sometimes ask why a surf resort has seven yoga shalas and a longevity centre, as if wellness were something we bolted on for the wives. Wrong way around. Surfing and wellness belong together at the deepest level, and every surfer over forty knows exactly what I mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To keep surfing, you have to care for your body. Surfing requires massive strength and flexibility, and it pays you back with fatigue and tightness. The ocean doesn\u2019t care how old you are; the takeoff at six-foot Keramas demands the same thing from me now as it did twenty years ago. If I want to keep knifing a 6\u20191\u201d into that wave into my sixties and beyond, recovery isn\u2019t a spa day. It\u2019s the training program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This side of Komune carries the DNA of my partner Tony de Leede, the man behind Fitness First<\/a> and the Gwinganna health retreat.<\/a> What I planned as a small, low-key surfers\u2019 resort grew, largely through Tony\u2019s vision, into an active lifestyle resort where the wellness is as world class as the wave \u2014 and what makes Komune what it is today.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tony de Leede enjoying a Bintang at the Komune opening, 2012 \u2014 the Fitness First and Gwinganna founder whose vision morphed Komune into what we renamed Komune – an active lifestyle resort.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Here\u2019s my perfect recovery after a double session, and you can run it yourself the day you arrive. A deep tissue massage from our spa therapists, who most guests tell us give some of the best massages they\u2019ve ever had. A yoga session with Dinda. Then a ice bath and sauna contrast to reset the muscles, with ice and magnesium doing the honest work. Once you\u2019ve done that, you can get back in the surf. That\u2019s the whole point. Not wellness instead of surfing. Wellness so you can surf more, harder, for more decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The professionals figured this out long ago, which is why they keep coming. Jack Robinson, Joel Parkinson, Luke Egan and Julian Wilson stay and train here all the time. When world champions use your resort to prepare their bodies, you\u2019re probably doing something right.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kelly Slater at the pool, meeting the youngest fans. The pros found Keramas long before the resort existed \u2014 and they never stopped coming.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Chapter 9: An Equal Lineup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Why Komune Means Community<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The name isn\u2019t decoration. Komune is about communing, and the whole idea of the brand is creating a sense of community where guests end up friends by the end of the week. Kids playing together. The guys surfing. Everyone catching up at the pool or in yoga. Wedding groups who arrive as two families and leave as one. We watch it happen every single week, and it never gets old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there\u2019s a harder-edged philosophy underneath the warm and fuzzy stuff, and it shaped one of the biggest commercial decisions we ever made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surfers in the water are equal. That\u2019s one of the last truly equal places on earth. Priority in a lineup goes to position and commitment, not net worth. The bloke on the battered secondhand board has exactly the same claim on the next set wave as the CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Ida Boys\u2019 warung, still standing where it always has. Tipi Jabrik\u2019s condition for the whole project: keep it, so local surfers always have somewhere to eat, string a board and feel at home.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

So we built the resort the same way, on purpose. We price our rooms for all budgets, not just five star. A young surfer scraping together a trip can stay at Komune, and so can a family who want the best beachfront pool suite<\/a> on the island, and in the lineup out front they\u2019re identical. Our passion for surf is the priority, not money. Plenty of consultants have told us over the years to push the whole place upmarket. We never will, because the mixed lineup is the culture, and the culture is the product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s our Balinese staff who bring it to life, the same village families who\u2019ve been part of this from that first afternoon on the concrete floor. They make every guest feel part of our family. They remember your name, your kids\u2019 names, your coffee order and your favourite board. It\u2019s the number one thing guests tell us, ahead of the wave, ahead of the view. That should tell you something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told you at the start that parts of this story would be uncomfortable, so here is the hardest chapter of the whole eighteen years. When Covid hit, the government shut Bali\u2019s airport, and it stayed shut for two and a half years. We were running a 106-room hotel with two or three guests a day. And we had to make a call, because nobody on earth could tell us how long it would last: close the doors and let go of the village family that built this place, or stay open into the unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We chose to stay open. We ripped through two and a half years of cash reserves across two resorts, and our staff \u2014 all of them \u2014 agreed to go to half wages to help carry the load. Even that wasn\u2019t enough. To see it through, we ended up selling our other hotel, Komune at Greenmount Beach on the Gold Coast. One of the hardest decisions of my life. Looking back, it was a huge sacrifice, forced on us by a government shutdown none of us could control or predict. But the promise we made to this village came before the balance sheet, or it never meant anything. When the airport finally reopened, the team that welcomed the first guests back was the same family that had been here all along.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The beach club team \u2014 Tony with Big Chef Suangga, Agus and Dewa.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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Chapter 10: The Verdict<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Is Komune the Best Surf Resort in Bali?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Eighteen years in, here\u2019s my honest answer, and my logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First and foremost, the location. Right in front of the best wave you could possibly imagine, so consistent and offering so much to every type of surfer. You can be lying by the pool drinking a cocktail while, fifty metres away, someone is getting the barrel of their life. I don\u2019t know of anywhere else in the world where that sentence is true at least 330 days a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, the equality. Rooms priced for every budget, a lineup where nobody\u2019s money matters, and a culture built around the thing surfers actually share: the love of the waves, not the bill at checkout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, the people. The most important. A resort staffed by the village that owned this land for generations, a warung the local boys never lost, and a family feeling you can\u2019t fake, audit or franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s my case. But here\u2019s the part that keeps me up at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/p>\n\u201cMy biggest fear isn\u2019t a competitor. It\u2019s Bali losing the things that make it Bali.\u201d
<\/strong>TONY CANNON<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Its culture, its religion, its connection to the land. All of it is interwoven with the Subak irrigation systems that have fed this island for centuries, and all of it can be ruined by thoughtless development, by stunning fertile land being concreted over one project at a time. I\u2019ve watched it happen to places I loved on this island. I see a few signs of it happening at Keramas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What gives me hope is the village. Keramas has a very strong sense of its culture and environment, and it actively defends both. When that marina scheme came for the wave itself in December 2024, backed by massive global interests, it wasn\u2019t a corporation that stopped it. It was the grassroots village community rising up. But we live with the anxiety of the next scheme, always. Protecting this place isn\u2019t a chapter of the story. It\u2019s a permanent condition of it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The site before it was a resort: cleared ground, a rock pile, and the same ocean view that convinced Tony to buy in front of a wave he had never seen break.<\/strong><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

So is Komune the best surf resort in Bali? I think it\u2019s the best place in the world, and I\u2019ve told you exactly why, so you can discount the founder\u2019s bias and still have plenty left over. Eighteen years ago I stood in a rice paddy on a flat, grey, miserable day, looking at a beach with no waves and wondering if I\u2019d lost my mind. A white snake crossed the paddy. Six brothers on a concrete floor told me they\u2019d been waiting for me. I trusted my instincts, and every single morning since has paid that trust back tenfold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still wake up in the dark and paddle out to watch the craziest sunrises you\u2019ll ever see, the Lombok volcanoes on the horizon, dead glassy waves, sometimes just me and the Ida boys. Thirty years after one barrel at Uluwatu locked in my love of this island, I get to live in front of the wave of my life. I am deeply grateful every day for what this magical place has given me and so many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come and test the question yourself. I\u2019m the bloke in the lineup at first light on the 6\u20191\u201d. Say g\u2019day. The first Tommy\u2019s margarita is on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keramas & Komune, at a Glance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Quick Answers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Where is Hotel Komune Bali?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hotel Komune Resort & Beach Club<\/a> is at Keramas on Bali\u2019s east coast, in Gianyar regency, directly in front of the Keramas surf break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How far is the Keramas wave from the rooms?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three minutes from a beachfront suite to the lineup.<\/a> The beach club<\/a> is fifty metres from the break, and you walk off black sand straight into the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When is the best time to surf Keramas?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keramas works easily 330 days a year and pumps from November to April \u2014 Bali\u2019s wet season, when the west coast breaks are blown out. It mostly favours a rising mid tide, but every tide can work depending on swell direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you surf at night at Komune?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes. Keramas has permanent stadium floodlights on two 25-metre towers \u2014 a world first \u2014 and Komune is the only resort in the world running night surfing<\/a> under lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has Keramas held professional surfing contests?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three WSL Championship Tour events: the Oakley Pro 2013, won by Joel Parkinson as reigning world champion, and the Corona Bali Protected in 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Komune only for surfers?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. Only about 20 per cent of guests surf. The rest are surfing families, wellness retreat guests and wedding groups, with seven yoga shalas<\/a>, a Pilates studio<\/a>, gym<\/a>, spa<\/a>, kids club<\/a>, skate park<\/a> and longevity centre.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can beginners surf Keramas?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On small days it\u2019s fun and playful for intermediates, and there are mellower waves nearby for beginners. With size, Keramas is an advanced reef break demanding fitness and commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do professional surfers stay at Hotel Komune?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the time \u2014 Jack Robinson, Joel Parkinson, Luke Egan and Julian Wilson stay and train here. Before Komune existed, the lineup was already a favourite of Kelly Slater, Jamie O\u2019Brien and Taj Burrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does Komune support the Keramas community?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 80 per cent of staff come from Keramas village, 5 per cent of profit after tax goes to the Keramas village charity for social programs and environmental management each year, and Komune built Bali\u2019s first river pollution trap under its One Village Plastic Free program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay in front of the wave \u2014 book Hotel Komune Bali<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Tony Cannon \u00b7 Founder, Hotel Komune Resort & Beach Club \u00b7 Keramas, Bali<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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