I was searching the site for info on Couran Cove area on Sth Straddy cuz Im heading there this weekend.. and I spotted a post where Pauly Jackson said this...

"The Gold Coast is a Bathing Reserve for the full length of the Coast with the following areas excluded:

Currumbin Alley and 100m North and South of the Alley. (exculding the estuary)
Tallebudgera Creek 100m North and South of the Creek
South Stradbroke Is up to 200m South of Couran Cove. "

Been around 4-5 months since a kite and Im feeling better, so I'm in dire need of one. Becuase I dont know the area of straddy veryyyy well at all, I was just wondering does that rule out Couran Cove all together!? Or is that from the Gold Coast (ie Spit) up to 200m before (south) couran cove!??

cheers fellas
lizzie xo

I got married on the beach at Couran Cove around this time of year. Didn't kite then, but would be a good spot. Looking back there was a 20kt NNE blowing. Made landing the chopper we arrived in for the ceremony tricky and plenty of guests had a nice blasting

But there is really no one there on the beach side except right at the resort itself, and that takes up 200m of the 20km beach - you will have no problems finding open beach and water to kite, and as long as you are a reasonable distance from the flags the lifeguards are unlikely to hassle you. Forget the bayside though.

hope you can ride a pushy 2km to the beach side with your gear on your back though :)

I spent 5 days at curan cove 2 yrs ago. left my kiting gear but it blew pretty consistantly the whole week. the ocean side would be nice to kite