Headed to long reef (for the expected N-NE) winds for yesterday, got there early, the wind started picking up, white caps appearing turning into breaking crests heading on shore, perfect conditions was going to be a sweet day!
and spent the next 3 hours trying to launch the kite and keep it in the air
I was 50 inland from the waters edge, on the edge of longy golf course in 25 years of sailing, windsurfing, kite boarding I have never seen 15-18 knots of wind stop at the waters edge, if felt like I was in the bermuda triangle.
Just when I thought it was just me, a paraglider tried 5 times to launch off long reef headland, and aborted each time.
Later I could see a kite boarder in collaroy basin kiting on the waters edge not more than 80 meters from me. It got even stranger the wind was blowing on the land from the NW yet on the water it was N-NE I got going once and was buggying directly into the wind!
I packed up finally and as I drove home 2km up the road there were 12 kiteboarders out at Narrabeen, I stopped and the first 20 meters of the water was relatively smooth, like the wind was behind some kind of wall?
Is there a Meteorology explanation for this?
These are live readings from yesterday.
An Inland reading
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A coast reading
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