At the beginning of next year I finish my job contract, and I will be taking a nice long holiday having not taken a long break from work since I left high school nearly 10 years ago.

As it is, I will have about 6 months off from Feb until I plan to start uni studies at the end of July, and want to visit WA for Kite-stock, do a few road trips up and down the NSW coast, head over to NZ again, and also do an overseas trip to Morocco in May.

I am however feeling a little greedy and am tossing around the idea of extending my time off and not starting uni until the following year giving me a good full year off. Are there any recommendations of places I can visit for regular kiting for an extended period of time and live on the cheap from about July until November? Not too fussed whether it's a flat water spot or a wave spot, although a mix of both would be perfect. How expensive is it to live in Cape Town? I don't drink booze or socialise so no money wasted there!

Oh wow - 6 months kiteboading from Feb onwards? If it were me I'd be doing the west coast thing until the wind cut out !! From my understanding once the west coast scene drops out its then?? - maybe the far north (East) coast of Qld ?? - maybe a bit of overlap there.
Southern Oz in Autumn (Vic)is as we call it the 'doldrums' punctuated with occasional southerly (bloody cold) bursts from the south - so unkiteble to 7m stuff - with added cold!!

Well I was planning on squeezing out as much time locally as possible when the summer seabreezes are blowing, so I can save money for going overseas in winter. I have never been to WA so I would like to head over there while it gets consistent wind, and Kite Stock sounds like a bit of fun.

Once the consistency in Aus dies down a bit, that's when I want to jump overseas and checkout what there is on offer. I will wait until May to go to Morocco, and will probably spend a month there. So between March-ish and May is fairly open. I will most likely fit the NZ trip in there somewhere.

nz is best later in the year, i'd call oct,not, dec. for cranken westerlies, cranken swell.

Tiree in Scotland also looks quite nice. Hire a camper and just drive around the island for a few weeks in March. Bloody cold though.

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