Depends when you go to Cairns, its starting to get into jellyfish season. You may want to look at Perth as an alternative.

A couple of us went to Cairns back in august,stayed 1 night in Cairns then hired a house on the beach out at yorkies knob and kited nearly every day, walked across the road pumped up. The locals were a bit cool to start with but soon warmed up and we had a great time time...went up to port Douglas one day but the wind died so back to yorkies for a late session. Don't know about wind conditions in May but definetly hire something at yorkies. When we drove up to Port there was a heap of nice Bays to kite, Green island is good (good for snokling as well)but unfortunitly the tide was wrong for our trip. Lizard is also a good destination for both Kite and Snorkeling. Good kite shop in yorkies open to late at night with really helpful friendly crew in there. There is a guided 3 or 4 day kitesurfing trip up through the rainforest to some Aborigonal lands we were told that it is the ultimate kite surf trip. They say it has ...perfect bays and garanteed wind and good food ... If you do nothing else you should probibly do this trip. We are planning to go back and do this trip next year.

maui is crazy in may..
most days are 25-30 knots +
some days are 35 which is too much!! even on a 6 you can be over powered

Cairns has had a really good run considering it is October. Our season is usually over by now with the odd high pressure coming through giving us only one or two days of wind. It has literally blown everyday between 15 and up to 30 knots this month, with most of the wind around 20 plus. One of the best ends to our season I think I have experienced.

However, the wind normally is light NE and humid around the 10 knot mark up until around March. Don't be disappointed if you come up here and that is what you experience.

hawaii said...

Hi All
planning my annual kite trip... its a call between going back to hawaii... best place Ive been yet... or trying something new... cairns looks good.
I am looking for good and accessable kiting conditions, a beacch town and a social / back packer atmosphere... also some good snorkelling trips...
any ideas?

Hey mate you shld definetly try NQ for a kiting experience.

From Townsville to Lizard Island.

You could do:
Alva, Townsville, Congall, Lucinda, Yorkeys Knob, Port Douglas, Cooktown, Cape Flattery, LIZARD ISLAND (you can fly up with us, we will do heaps of trips next year) as soon as wind kicks in March!!

Might be good option to Hawaii.

Stay Wind Blessed