slit your wrists now, you'll be homesick forever...

Don't move first up because kiting in Brisbane is 1/10th of what WA has. But if you do I would move to Manly or Wynnum on the south side and your only a few minutes from the airport. Wello point is the pick and your still not far from that.

Thanks for the support guys!

I'm definitely not looking forward to this move... maybe she can live in Brissy by herself for a while

A dilemma ever kitesurfer faces - time with the girl or time with the kite

Now Brooksy,
There's a reason why you kitesurf and it's not because you are a bit dim, it's because your'e smart.

Here's my advice:
1. Dinner, candles etc. (lots of books written on doing this right)
2. Create a really open line of communication(lots of books on this too), explain your passion and that you are prepared to move for her. (kisses, cuddles and loving looks will follow) Allow her to understand your deep love for HER rather than showing your deep love for kiting. Offer to work for the both of you to support her through her studies and that you've been looking at places to live (which you have) and are starting to look for work over there too.
3. Now, once the second glass of champagne has been devoured (limit your intake to not be trapped by your own stupidity), now start to negotiate.....If her course is 4 years, then the trade off will be four years for you, and you know what that means don't you. You have four years to think about where your four years of kiting might like to be.

Wello or Wynnum may not be "ideal" but the fact that you have a girlie you dig, who you want to hang with is cool, especially if the long term plan is one that involves four years kiting with the said girl lovingly accepting and agreeing to the choice!!.
Part of the negotiation is an agreement that you will also need time to yourself to kite when in QLD, that may mean two weeks away back here in WA. The options in the negotiation is only limited to the amount of work done in steps 1&2. Once the expectations are clear (locked in by a lawyer if need bee), you will be kitng with a really big smile on your dial and loving bayside.

Not all doom and gloom eh?.

Such romantics in the kitesurfing community -

I might also try to justify this summer off just to kite, Race2Rotto, Kitestock, a few Gnarloo trips... she can't be mad at me for taking this summer to enjoy the last of Perth for a while...

hey mr bonk thats worse than anything, now you gotta listen to that whinging 24/7 and you cant check out chicks at the beach, oh and you gotta share gear...oh and you gotta help her out when shes in trouble.....the list goes on, good luck buddy.