An awesome start to the serious end of the its extreme kiteweek.

With the riders meeting out of the raod the wind kicked in 18-20 knots right in front which saw Paul jacksosn highlight his talents for the News Cameras that showed up for the meadia conference.

Just after that about 20 riders headed to machans beach for the dsahfor cash which saw Craig Mewitt fron Cairns narrowly beat Matty payne from townsville and Dave Srrensen from newcastle third.

A 2 hour of good wind saw the rest of the crew rip up the falt water of the river mouth. Plenty of the crew made use of the Slingshot training trampoline in the rigging area.

Tonite its off to gilligans for the 3 minutes of fame dvd comp.

More news tomorrow.
Bruce