Hey Chris
The best spots on the Northern beachs for a seabreeze which north easterly is Palm beach up the north end, sometimes Narrabeen in front of the sands hotel. If its a southerly try Long Reef. But mate if you really want to kite and kite a lot this summer W.A is the place to be you can nearlly kite all week over here its the third windiest city in the world. I've moved a year and a half ago and I can kite 5 to six days out of the week work permitting of course, in Sydney lucky to get three. If you want to travel south go to dolls point but gets crowded.
All the best in your kiting.

bigmark100 said...

hi Chris,

Narrabeen or Long Reef (dee why ) are the best spots for kiting on the northern beaches - and you will get waves at both. Just head down there anytime there is a wiff of a breeze, you are bound to see some kites.
Unfortunately the wind has been a bit down so far this season.
Hopefully it changes soon.

Mark

That's if you're from down that way and like light winds and all want to kite within 50m of each other.

To answer Chris' questions:

NE wind got to Palm beach-wind is cross-onshore and you can ride the waves either down wind or up wind-depending upon your ability.
S winds got to Mona Vale.
SSE-SE got to Newport-great waves riding if there's swell.
Also you can catch the ferry from Palm Beach to Ettalong and kite really fun long (small) waves in SSW-SE winds.

Usually this time of the year 3-5 days-however the winds have been stuffed by a series of troughs shutting down the usual NE seabreeze at this time of the year and directing S changes away. Looks like there will be a NE's for Palmy this Sunday (fingers crossed).

WA is by far the better palce at this time of the year for nuking winds and some waves.

You want to private message (PM) for more.

Thanks for all your help, guys! Guess I better go get myself a surfboard for the off days. Hope to see some of you at Palmy on Sunday if the NE'er decides to show up. Looks like the forecast changed from Sunday to Monday though.

If your local instincts tell you it's looking up and you suddenly find yourselves getting ready to pump your kites, I wouldn't be totally furious if you'd take the time to PM me :)

By the way, is Botany Bay worth checking out?

And does anybody know about a decent gym in the Avalon area that's kinda cheap and not overfilled with PTs and housewives doing yoga?

Again, appreciate your advice.

Chris

Chris Shark said...

Thanks for all your help, guys! Guess I better go get myself a surfboard for the off days. Hope to see some of you at Palmy on Sunday if the NE'er decides to show up. Looks like the forecast changed from Sunday to Monday though.

If your local instincts tell you it's looking up and you suddenly find yourselves getting ready to pump your kites, I wouldn't be totally furious if you'd take the time to PM me :)

By the way, is Botany Bay worth checking out?

And does anybody know about a decent gym in the Avalon area that's kinda cheap and not overfilled with PTs and housewives doing yoga?

Again, appreciate your advice.

Chris

No idea about Gym's mate-not really my speed.

Botany Bay is all flat water-good waves and wind at Wanda-usually 5 knots stronger than the N side.

Looks like Sun and Mon may be OK-BUT no waves and the troughs may fugg things up.

Er du kommet deg til Sydney nå?

Jeg bor i Curl Curl.

Vært dårlig med vind på Northern Beaches i de 3 mnd jeg har vært her.
Får håpe på bedre vind nå som det blir sommer.

Is it gonna be good enough to kite this sunday..
Its gonns storm its little feet off.
If there is enough wind the rain wont matter.. but the lightening and gusts could be a trouble..
hope we get some decent wind soon.
They are saying this weather is gonna stick for summer.. may be a bad year :(