There used to be a sign saying no jet ski's

I doubt it was a windsurfer.....It is most likely the game reserve on the other side of the lake. They don't want moter boats (jet skis) The sign was made without kiters in mind.

legless might be right...quite some years ago they asked us to keep away from the far reed beds in the 'bay' because there were a lot of birds roosting with their young over there.

And Genetrix - i don't know how little wind or distance you need, but with the power turned on it's really hard to find good stretches without chop (i reckon Lake George spit is the best, just one hell of a drive).

however, the water level at Boggy is definitely dropping - if it continues you may just get a killer kite boarding speed strip.

au contraire my friend. the water is considerably lower at the moment in boggy than it was two week's ago - i think we enjoyed higher-than-can-be-expected conditions following recent flooding of the Murray river system, but now it's receding again. hopefully it levels out and does not lose any more, i don't want to go back to Boggy II.

tt is right we had the same here at lake george this morning, was sailing over weed beds that where up to the top of the water in the northerlys on the weekend but this morning we had a 30 knot southerly and it pushed all the water back and had a good foot over it. tt was on the speed gear on the weed bed just to the right of where you always camp was flat as in 30.
oh and trousers I was on a 5.0 race sail and it wasn't nuking.

Genetrix said...
Years ago we would sail down along the reed beds in smooth water , I guess with the correct wind direction it would still work.

that's still true. close to the reed beds anything with a lot of west in it polishes it nicely but up close those same conditions bring flukey wind-shadows so us poleys prefer to keep out a touch. but I guess with a kite tapping into the power up higher you'd be able to keep the hammer down.

40+kts is rare for boggy...but if you got any chance it's during the winter fronts

PJCiesa said...

I don't think that sign was to exclude kiters. It was really I think directed to try and exclude motorised craft. Having said that the pro-fisherman is always doing his rounds, checking his nets out.

The water is still dead flat behind the reed banks in a Southerly. There's a channel on the Southern side of the reed banks, so a Northerly or Southerly works now.
http://www.gpsteamchallenge.com/sailor_session/show?date=2011-04-16&team=22

That looks sweet as , cant wait to go down and check it out.
Any nasty bits in the water in the new speed channel?

Trousers said...

au contraire my friend. the water is considerably lower at the moment in boggy than it was two week's ago - i think we enjoyed higher-than-can-be-expected conditions following recent flooding of the Murray river system, but now it's receding again. hopefully it levels out and does not lose any more, i don't want to go back to Boggy II.

The water gets blown out in Northerlies and westerlies it is normal.....it is blown back in Southerlies The water has not dropped it was just the effect of the wind.

compared Peters tracks to 2009 nearmap photo and the run looks post/obstacle free, I could zoom right in and actually see the cracks in the clay.

i heard they were gonna fill it in altogether just to get the kooks into the ocean.

It's just come to my attention that a development plan exists for Boggy Lake. Closing date for submissions is this Thursday 09 June. You can download the plan on the Murray Bridge council website...

http://www.murraybridge.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=229

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