What are the buoys at Melville beach for?
WAKSA el-president-o speaks of the new buoys at Melville:"They have been installed by DPI Marine & Safety and appear to be in the locations agreed upon at a meeting I attended with Nick Strueli back in July. At that meeting DPI reps, Melville council reps & the two of us, representing you, came to a compromise position whereby council & DPI accepted our 3 year trial of the launch and land zone as sufficiently successful to follow through with allowing kiting to continued in this regulated way.
The ground we couldnt win was kiting outside of the seabreeze season so you will find that signage will follow the bouyed area restrictions explaining that kiting will only allowed from Sept thru to April. (At a meeting some time I will explain the rationale behind that no-compromise position.)
The buoys have been installed without the planned follow-up meeting of all the parties or any advise to WAKSA. I have consequently contacted those parties requesting an update on the plans for signage and associated regulation enactment.
WAKSA members will be receiving introduction cards in their welcome kit - coming any day now. I implore you Melville guys to use these to approach any unfamiliar faces to get the Melville message across.
Your beach is at a point of critical balance. It will take attention to every detail of control and sensible use to keep even this restricted level of access open.
Your beach is in your hands but waksa is here to help.
ps for those who may not be aware the buoys delineate an area, roughly 50M from the shoreline, inside which you are only permitted to launch and land kites. i.e. no active kiting inside that line. "
