Unbelievable !!! Not again ! Does anyone know of the best persone to contact and the number to reach them on ? If so, can they please post it here for the purposes of maximising the public pressure on the Council. The more people that make a quick call, the more chance we have of getting a favourable outcome.

Hell i'll even ring him, and i live in Brisbane!, HHMMM public sector.....

Good to see you back Foxy. My mate Big Col has been waiting to get his hands on you!!

Hey RM
You're one agro b*****d, but I've seen you on the water, and you rip.
Probably one of the best kiters on the eastern seaboard.

On a serious note, I rang Steve Burke this morning re the gate closure, and he knows nothing about it.
He's following up on it though. Nice bloke, so when you ring, don't give him a hard time. The more calls the better.
A kiter cut his foot on the point yesterday, and I explained that we had to carry him all the way back to his car.

Hi Caelah but you are wrong it is not a nature reserve it is just council parkland which we all pay rates to the council for maintenance to keep it in pristene condition for our use, The nature reserve starts at the two yellow buoys out in Quibray Bay and extends across Towra to Woolooware Bay.
We just have a closet greeny from the council trying to include it in the nature reserve hence his boss knows nothing about the gate being closed.
If they want to keep four wheel drives off the beach then there are other ways of doing that without precluding genuine users from accessing council parkland.
If we don't have it reopened then it will be chaos down there in the winter westerlies.

I thought I'd do a little looking around on the old google war-horse and found that "Bonner Point" is listed as a "reserve". It doesn't really matter if its council, state or country a reserve is a reserve.

Caelah only pointed out that people maybe abusing the area. She's not implying that it was kite boarders it's probably drunk kids trashing the place and not caring. Add that to the fact that it backs onto (as I found in my research trip) the most important wet land reserve in Sydney they figured they’d try to keep it safe. But alas in the true council form they seam to not have appeased everyone involved.

Now it was nice to see that the people from Kurnell showed up to support the Botany group, and I'm sure the Botany Bay guys would come out to support if you guys organized something. Start a club to talk to the council (you may have done this already forgive me if you have). The Botany Bay council have apparently been very receptive to the South Sydney guys and its working out well.

From the sounds of it this is going to be an issue at Kurnell so get organized, work with the council, and nip it in the butt before its a problem.

There was a fishing club that controlled access to a dam we used to kite on in South Africa with a locked gate. We joined the club and all got a key. Easy. If the council want to keep out teeny boppers maybe they could just give all genuine kiters a key to the gate? Just a thought.