Been in Port Douglas for the last week for a bit of work, so have missed this thread, but will try and add some light as I attended most of the council meetings etc over the last 8 months. Firstly, and I suppose most importantly. The council had strong pressure from certain Cottesloe residents to ban kiting in the total shire. The council has in there wisdom decided to allow kiting , by changing their by-laws and including kiting into there system. I'm afraid it's not a free world. ie not surfing in Cott in summer/ no boats within 200m of shore etc etc. In fact we are illegally kiting in Cottesoe, until they change their by-laws. The shire by-laws define surfing,windsurfing,booggy boarding, canoeing, fishing etc,etc. We are now becoming legal to kite in Cott. IE, the council has off loaded all risk and chance of being sued. What if you kite their without council approval. The council has now legally washed it's hands towards kiting and legally set in place minimum standards for kiting in the Shire. As I was told " if you guys are mad enough to kite in Cott, do so at you own risk". If you wish to kite in the Cottesloe Shire and hurt yourself and are not part of WAKSA,(or you can take out your public liability insurance.) YOU will be held 100% responsible. If you hurt any one else , lose a kite, you are responsible.
Past this if you decide kite in restricted zones or cause problems with swimmers or other water users, the cottesloe council can ban us totally at the very next council meeting.

Kiting has been totally banned recently at beaches in Adeliade/Hawaii/and parts of Europe. Councils are looking at kite useage in Melbourne and Gold coast at the moment.
So at the end of the day either join WAKSA(there is no conspiracy theory)organise your own INDEM Insurance. Or kite in other Shires.

Kite hard -

Can anyone explain any of this.
Unbelievable.

na from what I understand if you have AKSA membership your cover'd if your a WA resident or not ?

I too am interested to see what the council's do as my local spot Woodmans point, which is 5k's from my new block of land, is luckly enough on a nature rezerve. However the surrounding areas are marked for major development into a cott/scarb/freo style ritzy suburb. But I feel if we act now we can get established long beforwe they do....

pain is temporary, glory is for ever !

The Ranger is on our case because of complains of kite boarding in Cottesloe. A number of letters werer sent to the council by Cottesloe house holders across the road. ie kiters frighting swimmers, kites hitting bathers on beach at cottesloe, kiter ending up over road on golf course and a loose kite ending up wrapped around a house across the road in Cottesloe. Also the kites at the phone box were hanging over the foot path and road when kiters were walking up the beach from cove area. Also a number of people have been hurt at Cottesloe over the last 18 months, a guy was dragged( not a pretty sight I heard)over small groyne and a guy last winter knocked unconscious at the cove. (again he told me that he had no idea how long he was on beach until he was found). As you can see the Ranger had a few issues to deal with, with really got under his skin. Since we have moved to Rosendo street, our interaction with the general public has dropped 90%.
IF all kiters do the right thing by the council , the council has no issues with us kiting at Cottesloe, infact they all like to watch kiting and want it to stay in Cottesloe.

Kite hard

Above post to our -OUT OF STATE FRIENDS-

Thanks Jonno, Cottesloe sounds great Now I'm suss, dont you guys normally dissuade us 'blow ins' from clogging up your beaches? Cott must be crap - there must be a real pearler down the road.
Sounds like WAKSA are doing a great job by being proactive and involved in the process. My 'ostrich' comment was made because I anticipated that my comments could be misunderstood. I fully support a proactive approach .....where necessary. I'm just suggesting that we may want to think twice before unecessarily pointing out possible legal exposure of local councils (in other regions or states) which may not have already been concerned or investigating the idea of bans. I'm not suggesting disengagement from the council but that we keep our ear to the ground and work with them before the cloud is overhead.

yeah that does sound gay

i'll think before I type next time

hey shane, R we gona do any downwindas this season......maybe monday arvo next week, it's about time we did another one....

pain is temporary, glory is for ever !

I'm bloody flying........I've been on arvo's all weeks........I've got tomorrow off, however I think the winds not going to come in !

I'm not working much next week and the families away in Kalbarri, so I'm praying for wind every day......

Oh yeah the boys & I R heading up very early Sat morning, so have the bacon & eggs cooking !

pain is temporary, glory is for ever !

hey, is there any chance of getting an online mpayment system on the waks website so that we can payby credit card(if there is then i have missed it) its just otherwise things can be a bit difficult for those without cheque accounts. or would can we be able to transfer the money directly into the account

punchy