2 things to do here:
1) Get Married.
2) Share the kiting experience with your partner..

Remember, 'Just Kite'.

Didi, Awesome thread (and idea)

It really is hard (to get out and kite) when you have to watch the kids and you don't know anyone on the coast (all my babysitters are in Brisbane) and when your Hubby works on the weekend

also it takes forever to get the kids ready! rashies sunscreen hats towels food water shade tent but we make a day of it usually head down for 4 hours plus. the only bonus kids are knackered when we get home.

I am lucky as I currently have live in help that can come down and look after the kids (1&2)at the beach whilst my wife and I kite.

But yeah they are still time suckers, getting them ready let alone in the car - and I still like to spend time with them at beach too as I don't get to see much of them during the week.

This is all about to change as I will be shifting back to Bris Vegas later in the year and reality will hit hard although I just bought a block of land smack in the middle of Wello Point and will be ensuring there is enough space in the new house for visiting babysitters grandparents (or kiters). My mother lives at Mudjimba and we will be spending a lot of time there as well. She loves kids maybe she can run a minding service while we all go kiting!!

But this thread is the go though - get a group together, make a day of it and take turns in kiting/keeping an eye on the kids, it's gotta be a winner for everyone surely! I'll be in when I come down.

LOL - no way - you aren't using up all my childminding credits before I get down there!

I reserve the sole right to make my Mother thoroughly sick of kids [}:)]

Yeah - and I do feel for ya Chook!

nothing worse than a cranking day and being stuck with the kids. It's such as shame that those pokie junkies have made locking them in the car so frowned upon!

Hopefully something will come out of this thread to get you out there more.

Just created an intermediate to advanced group for those interested in Downwinders and going out in bigger surf and more hectic wind. Feel free to contact me for more information

mytchook said...

Your mum lives in Mudjimba you say?

Let her know I will be dropping the kids off there on Saturday morning on may way through to Noosa for a kite!!!

Mudjimba works fine for me as a child minding centre also - what time does your Mum open Saturday mornings Paradox?!!

On a serious note, and call me old fashioned, but I like spending time with my children. If I can regularly include them (safely) in kite outings, that would be real fine (not to mention being able to kite with friends).

By my count there are three starters for the kiting/keeping an eye on the kids group - Chook, Paradox and myself.

Had a breakthrough 2day though - my 6 yr old son has been watching Ruben Lenton doing kiteloops on YouTube, and studying my Kiteboarder magazines. He asked how old he has to be before he can kite with me. Old enough to swim old enough to kite says I, and placed an urgent order through for a 1.5m trainer foil! Just have to figure out how to put footstraps on his body-board now! My daughters are still reluctant to try kiting (vivid memories of watching me get tea-bagged on my first C-kite in 25 knots).

Yeah I will be in, but I won't be down that way for 6 months or more, so not much use until then - unless you want to send your kids up here to Port Moresby! Plenty to keep them occupied

Better yet, you should all plan a kiting holiday here after Easter when the wind kicks back in. Kids can play on the beach, looked after by nannies and everyone can kite

invest $2 in a 2 pack of rubbers,no kids,heaps of free time to kite.
just kidding,kids are great

the offer is there for most weekends DiDi