It fronts a perfect righthander!
Do you have one million dollars? I do, but cannot access this windfall for seven-and-a-half years, which is well into the sunset of my life. It’s a long story and typical of financial decisions I make on a whim or while riven with guilt.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Anyway, if this money was available, which it isn’t hence a post last week begging for bar work, or if you had the money, do you think it would be a good decision to buy one hectare of gorgeous beachfront land in Java?
The question arose yesterday when a friend, who has a friend with this land, told me about the sale. The parcel is next to the surf resort Rizal Tanjung built with his father-in-law in the East Javanese village of Watu Kerung.
From Rizal’s resort’s website:
Rizal Tandjung first discovered the potential beauty of Watu Karung back in 2009 when a friend took him surfing there. Rizal was amazed and blown away by the pristine, serene beach with its special landscape and rocks out in the ocean. One rock cliff in particular, stood out because of its “Sphinx”-like features, or depending on where you stand or how you look at it, it could resemble a princess or a baby’s face.What really made an impression to Rizal was its powerful waves, it reminded him of surfing in Hawaii. These waves made his pro surfer friends such as Kelly Slater, Bruce Irons and Josh Kerr (just to name a few) also come to experience Watu Karung. A photo of Bruce Irons made it on the cover of a surfing magazine and he mentioned it was “the last secret spot”. Many other photo’s and stories about WaKa eventually cicrulated in different surf mags which put it more on the spot. The goal is to slowly build up the place over time to become the beach retreat they dreamed of. Time is not a factor, they don’t want to rush “art”.
Now, this hunk of land which is for sale sounds dreamy enough.
From its owner:
Watukarung is an upcoming surfer village close to Pacitan, East Java. Indonesian Surf Champion and mentor Rizal Tanjung was the first to buy, we were the second, and so many followed. There is no beachfront or just behind beachfront land left, the hype has fully started. It is safe to say that this little spot there will develop into something like Uluwatu or Padang Padang because the waves are world class, people with the required networks have invested and are promoting. Rizal has built a resort that he naturally promotes with his name, Indonesian surf champions Marlon Gerber and Pepen Hendrix also have their holiday homes. Its so cool, from our house you paddle out to the right.
These are the coordinates:
Or you just type in Watukarung in the search field of Google earth. I am sending you the screenshot with property boundaries attached. You see our land is straight in front of the righthander and just another 5 minute paddle across the channel to the lefthander. The beach belt of the peninsula belongs to Indonesia, just as any beach.
Our property consists of a part A which is beachfront and a part B which is adjacent to A just separated by a small public walkway. The rate for A (beachfront ) currently is at IDR 2 million per square meter, B (next row behind beachfront) is at IDR 1 million per square meter. Those prices are one tenth of Bali Canggu prices as by 2017.
A: Prime beach front at the wave. Land pieces 5 (3.500m) and 6 (1.236m) which total to 4.736m. Price: 4.736 x 2 million = 9.5 billion IDR
B: Next row behind beachfront. Land pieces 1,2,3,4 total to 4.352m. Price: 4.352m x 1 million = 4.35 billion IDR. The back of the property is a small hill from where you can overlook the whole bay and see the righthander, if the wind blows the coconut trees to the side you can also see the left.
The total property value would be 9.5 + 4.35 = 13.85 billion IDR which is roughly one million dollars.
In case the buyer opts only for land A (pieces 1,2,3,4) it is fine for us however land B (5,6) we only sell together with land A all in one go.
USP: We have the IMB (building permit) and legal docs to run a resort. Architectual plans are all ready. We do not charge anything, this is the bonus for the buyer. FYI hardly any other person in the village has the proper permits to build let alone run an accommodation business. Note that the position of the houses in the plan is more than 100m from the beach, so this IMB is waterproof, it corresponds to Indonesian law.
This is what I would do with the land.
I would build an all-white (colour not race) cubist resort here with chromium and leather Italian furniture, own only Pyzel Ghosts, ship in a woman (‘en) with breasts like ski jumps from the Pyeongchang Games, a basketball ass and a little round tummy and hair that is dark at the roots but turns yellow towards the end and die the happiest man. If I had the money. Which I don’t. Instead, down and out in Bondi.
You? Would you buy?
(Email [email protected] if you want to get pointed at the owner. Maybe I’ll get a little commission!)
You can also check: https://www.baliwaves.com/2…
If that deal is too risky, just got told our landlord is selling the place we are currently renting. For the same money, you get a wonderful home, granny flat, double lock up garage, 4 bay shed, pool and long term tenants who will pay your mortgage.
All offers considered.
purchasing land in Indonesia sounds like the perfect way to get ripped off. Doesn’t make any sense considering you could live there like a king for 1000$ a month. Dealing with Indonesians (unemployed tropical Christmas elves) isn’t worth anything and would likely drive you crazy…. not to mention bird-flu, volcanoes, earthquakes tsunamis, pollution, corruption, over-population, shitty food and feral Aussie squatters. No thanks
The feral Aussie squatters are the worst. Disrespectful, scummy bogans. I’m Australian.
They held a QS there last year .
Apart from all that it’s uncrowded and a paradise etc, yes?
The left looks scrumptious and was lovely to see a comp where the kids not only won but lost blood on the reef. I have never had entrepreneurial dreams and respect those who do but as Joni Mitchell wrote ;
don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
‘Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot .
Paradise Lost ? Or just a mini surf suburb for the little bit rich and not too famous .
Doing business in Jakarta is hard enough. Doing business in the boonies of Indo is probably completely exasperating.
Oh yeah…did I mention the earthquakes?
Tsunami 🌊 What happened at Gland can happen here ?
Tempting. But think I would buy some land up in the northern rivers of nsw run some cattle and surf those spots up there.
When you come up here Brye, few things you’ll have to do.
1. Felt hat. Essential.
2. Apply Magic Happens bumper sticker. They come with your rego papers up here.
3. Feed the cattle imported Himalayan goats curd mixed with kale.
4. Sell the milk from said cattle advertised as Himalayan almond and kale organic extract gluen fee, dairy free milk. Will be a huge hit with all girls wearing felt hats and blundstone boots.
5. Run your Discovery on canola oil.
6. Give your cattle their own instagram page.
7. Pay $7 for coffee.
8. Talk to everyone about Co2 and how you’ve set your farm up with solar power and your off grid, but then catch flights weekly back to Sydney for work.
9. Throw every fkn legrope you have straight in the bin on arrival. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Wow, and here i thought it would be a simple quiet life. Sounds more like Sydney then a simple pleasant retirement. And i do include the cattle in this statements.
can you buy that ice online?
You have exepectional taste in fantasy women.
Within 7 years there is gonna be an almighty economic crash , due to debt doubling since last GFC, so if your Mill is tied up tight, you may time it perfectly and buy it back for 500K. Glass half full!
Also curious, how can you know Bob Hawke and not get a job in a pub within 24hrs with his contacts or after waving around his reference?
Great book btw.
Love to see you do something similar but with a handfull of surfing legends from different generations.
Simon,MR, TC, Kong, McTavish,Nat, Greenough, Kelly, Taj etc.
Or Divorce stories from male/Dads point of view.
Only ever hear it from the wives side of it.
Divorce with kids sucks. Just saying.
…oh it does suck and rarely ends well.
But it is possible to come out the other side, and be better than ever. Give yourself some time and focus on what’s best for the kids.
Yep. Got a mate who has been going through this for a while. The fucked thing is that with the amount of money spent on lawyers, they could have put their kid through private schooling twice.
Some of the shit she has done is mind-blowing. For vexatious reasons she sold a number of my mates boards he had left under their house. In amongst them, were one that belonged to another mate and an old mal, that belonged to her dad. The dad lived in the US and hadn’t been back to Aus in 10 years. Out of the blue, a month or two late, he decides to visit. She had to buy the board back from the poor bloke who bought while pretending to her dad, who was in the car, that she had just been getting the bloke to repair it.
Don’t get me started on her playing the ‘victim’ at a good mate of our’s funeral…
Sometimes I regret that hell no longer exists . I wonder on which level Dante would place a she devil who would sell her own father’s board .Possibly,one day,Karma will prevail and she will be reincarnated as a blood sucking mosquito into a world existing entirely of granite.
The wreckage of divorced dads is something to behold. Jail. Rehab, Poverty. One nice man did tell me that even though he wishes every day he could be back with his family, he is having the best sex of his life.
Yeah, its a new digital world out there for dads now.
You dont have to wait for an audition on Perfect Match.
Sounds like there’s a pandoras box of hate on this divorce thread ha ha.😂
If a slow surf news week comes, Beachgrit may prob a topic on it, cause i got a feeling the stories will be many and funny, sad , vengeful and tragic. But bloody good reading all the same.
Come all, men and woman, unpick that festering grudge scab and let the blood run free!
Hey, if I can tag along here – just gave Dymocks ?29.99 for your book, Derek, and if it’s not a rude question…how much of that makes it into your sky-rocket?
Can you go on-line with book sales if you’ve bent over for the big boys, or do they ensure that they are the only source?
[By the way, they had a 2m tower of your books on a prominent corner of one of their racks in their busy Central Perth store, and seeing the book there jogged my memory to buy it, so at least they are promoting well.]
The Muslim locals would love to see a rich farang buy up the remaining prime parcels. What could go wrong?
Maybe some burkini’s to offset the ski jump titties? Problem solved
Sometimes you gotta say fuck it, jump the coffee table and hire the shark.
And then wait for the detectives to call!
With a wry smile, I imagine the detective perusing the welcoming shores of Beach Grit. Thoroughly dumbstruck. If the detective sees that photo of Ashton sticking his tongue out, it must be provided to the DA. It has exculpatory qualities.
I’m with you. Best case scenario it’s a scam and your money dissappears into a Bitcoin code scrawled on a matchbook in a Kinshasa slum.
Fingers crossed right?
I would buy it, fence off the whole thing, build an asbestos shack (for its fire retardant capability not its cancer causing downside) right on the beach and finally work out how to get barrelled.
Oh and Margot Robbie, Bintangs etc etc
Don’t you find Margot Robbie a little asexual? A smiling vanilla bean? As for Bintangs…
To be honest I was trying to think of Miranda Kerr’s name but was drawing a blank
Something about a tan line… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I like your taste
For some reason I find tan lines to be as aesthetically displeasing as webbed surfing gloves.Possibly from spending 20 years at a beach in South West France where nudity was the norm.
Tan lines = exquisite frames wrapped around the finest of delicacies.
I really like the classics.
Playboy 1978 !
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I do like a classic, with a little religiosity thrown in for extra kink. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
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Re smiley vanilla beans, Stab’s featured girls, including “pro’s hottest girlfriends” etc, is lousy with ’em. Beauties to be sure, but does not even one if these guys like a big butt? A chick who looks like she might win a fight? Not die in childbirth? Someone on the spectrum between Kate Upton and an Athleta model?
I mean besides Laird they ALL seem to favor a rail thin pixie-ish hottie. Beachy teenage white boys have no idea what they’re missing!
Do you think these slim, small-breasted creatures are proxies for deeper desires?
I will not go that far, but yes
Surfing’s long lingering latent homosexuality lingers longer ?
More like that posthumous Hemingway novel The Garden of Eden wherein the couple is so narcissistic that they look more and more like each other with every new page. Would it not be the all time baller move if Jack Robinson showed up at the Surfer Poll awards with a young Coco Austin lookalike on his arm?
ha!, yes!
omg dyyyinnnggg
Yep fuck the hotel for at least 5 years (maybe never). I would selfishly live there alone and be a tube pig.
When you think of the cost to buy and run a wave pool, wouldn’t you just buy this instead?
Yep. Morons with too much money.
Derek, invest in crypto! Sit on your 0.00000127 of a bitcoin and in seven and a half years you could potentially have two million dollars to tell us about.
And I would tell you all about it! To whomever is left at least…
Or turn .000000127 into
.0000000000000000000127
I was once told that if you’re even in a taxi and the driver tells you to buys shares…. sell sell sell!
I was enjoying a cold lager with a former pro surfer a few weeks back and he was advising me to invest EVERYTHING in crypto…. since then Bitcoin has gone from $23k to <$10k….
If your adept in short selling, you could probably do quite well with these pearls.
Can you really short Bitcoin? Make money by borrowing not-money against the hope that not-money becomes not-not-money?
“Investing” in bullets and underground bug-out shelters might actually be less crazy than it seems.
Everything! Now that’s some subpar advice. Spend what you can afford to loose and only invest on the dip. Too the moon we go!