I was just wondering if there is any common sence at Safety Bay.

To cut the story short: My leash broke yesterday and my kite was flying towards the road across the bay. Usually the first thing I do whenever I see someone's kite flying away is to go after it and secure it. What happened yesterday was just incredible. All the kiters just passed the kite and just didnt give a ****. Is that a normal behaviour at Safety Bay? Eventuelly Damo caught it just before shore. Thanks for that bro.
I can't count how often I've saved another kite. However I am disgusted by yesterday.

I just hope that there were accidently the wrong 20 kiters on the water and usually the locals go and catch the kite.

PS: I dont blame the beginners here who wld danger themselves by a rescue. But whoever can do a railey to blind shld be able to catch it. dont u think?

yah most of the locals wuda helped you if they were there.. unless you kited like an a-hole, if someone comes to my spot and cuts me off n is a dick i wouldnt save his kite either.. ie. i wouldnt of saved any blow ins kites this summer because 95% of them comin to safety bay were d bags.. not saying you were, i havnt ridden with you before so i cant say but just saying thats what the general blow in crew were like.

Forget common sense, it looks like a common theme down there, locals who think they own the joint and won't help anyone who kites there unless thier up to their standard, what a ** attitude. Hope you guys dont need help, oh thats right you won't be needing it as you don't have mishaps, you guys must be awesome.

All you guys seem a bit short sighted,

what about the issue of the public - we getting all this flack about restrictions and you guys are more concerned with who is in with the right crowd. If a kid gets taken out or the kite manages to blow across the road into an on coming car what will become of the access to that area.

Think about it!

Rich

Sounds like a ****e attitude to me. Helping people costs you nothing. If you don't like someones riding, they are probably a lot more likely to listen to your criticism/advice if you just saved their $1500 kite for them.

I'd hope that that wouldn't be the usual attitude. I've always found everyone @ SB really helpful and cool to me. Maybe that's just cause I'm a humble beginner and I don't venture into the pond.

Head down there again before you decide. Hope it was a one time thing. I like Saftey Bay.

....sorry to read this...we have the reputation to look out and after each other, but it may not always happen it seems......I don't believe there is excuse for ignorance...

rude locals, roads, trees, fences, windsurfers, kites flying across the bay......
Sounds like a terrible spot to kite.
Kiters should head to any of the other fantastic kiting locations in Perth, that have wonderful conditions and happy vibes, and leave the pond alone

Just ask Brad

hahahaha ^^^^

yer i heard woodies has heaps of room now that 50% of the old local crew arent around anymore

I wasn't going to comment on this as I wasn't there, but I suggest you paraphrase your topic heading and statement.

This is a extreme unfair generalisation of a community of kiters. After since hearing from a few other locals it appears that they where off on downwinders, I was driving back from a road trip with another local and both Simons are off the water injured. The other locals that I imagine where there would have not been in the pond region, as the migration of blow ins force them to our 2nd option spot.

Mathias, I'm afraid your critism is ill directed. I personally pick up boards and drop off to riders, I've dragged kites into shore when needed, I've raced downwind to secure kites before they take off into the jetty and windsurfers carpark.

Your whole statement explains why you hardly see the locals around this year at all. You come down once in a blue moon then come on Seabreeze and bitch, we put up with this crap everyday through summer.

I guess the solution is, you should just hang at the last spot you got a good vibe because the teuro invasion is only getting worse, and your dead right they are Ignorant and arrogant which equates to no respect what so ever.

Did you lose your safety leash by any chance

sorry dude, i drove past but i just didnt like ya

That's what I absolutely didnt want. I did not want to offend any locals and generalise all of them as being idiots. I just wanted to know if it is common down there that hardly anybody feels resbonsible for other kiters. Obviously there werent any locals there yestersday. So it wld simply be: No - the locals r not ignorant. Must have been tourists.

I used to go to Safety Bay a lot two years ago and it was different. Cldnt make it last year. So this year I just wanted to kite down there for one day again.

I know it is super crowded that's y I walked all the way up to the top of the bay, where hardly any kiters were when I came. Apparently as soon as they see a camera many kiters feels attracted to that and come very close. However that is another story.

And Sammy u r completely right that the Euro Invasion has become really bad. That's y I havent been going to woodies really. I dont like intruding other ppl beaches and behave like they have always been mine.

Let's change the topic to: Safety Bay - Pls catch my kite next time - I know u can do it :)

Take it easy. Didnt want to offend anybody. Just curiousity.

BTW: It doesnt matter if somebody is a douchebag or not. U shld always catch his or her kite. U still can tell them off onshore.

Don't go there Carbon Neutral!

You don't know the locals and can't really comment on how much they help out.

I spend heaps of time rescuing other people.

but then maybe you were just unlucky.

And someone did actually get Mathias kite, so why the agro

I ran along the beach when I saw Damo having a break on the beach 200m away from me. I ran to him cos nobody else re-acted when I asked them to get my kite. He went across the whole bay to get it. So it was not that somebody who was kiting caught my kite eventuelly. Damo had to go getting it.

As I said. Dont worry. I am fine, my kite is fine. I reckon it was just a really bad day with the wrong ppl on the water as I initally said.

Mathias.
I usually kite to safety bay, and when someone needs rescuing, there is always 3 kiters coming to help. in case of a flat kite (last one I helped was the flat core, I took is board, and somebody else towed him back to shore)

we have all been beginners, we have all been in trouble and needed help, so we should remember that and help those who need it.

I always go out of my wy to help anyone who looks like they need it
I even towed back to the beach a windsurfer who broke his mast way out in lancelin.

Sorry.. I didnt know that my nationality wld play any role. I am a bit shocked. But go ahead and put me in the bucket of dick heads.

Secondly my attachment of the leach broke. So the ring which is made as a leach attachment broke of the harness. I made my own leach cos of that reason. I dont think anyone wld expect the handlepass attachment of the harness to break. wld u?

So pls open a new topic to tell the tourist to **** off.