Roger Tony,

over and out. (sorry to hear you're working and not enjoying the long weekend).

Can't make Sunday.
Hope you guys get some decent wind.

Kitch

There is a little hit of surf around at the moment. Currently it is around head height, I think it will drop if anything...
I reckon you will be right, waves aren't very nasty along this stretch.

Was a good day today.
As I suspected the NE came in just after lunch. Somewhere between 15 and 20 knots. Did two downwinders.
The first with Zarb and Dave. The second with Dave and Mini.
Waves were small around shoulder height. The fellas looked like they were having a ball!!!
Cheers for coming guys, hopefully it blows tomorrow.

Awesome fun, how many waves can you ride on that stretch of beach.

Thanks boys can't wait to do that again

Hey Kitcho.

I had (literally) 10mins on the water on some random beach on Friday on the drive up to NSW from VIc. Not sure where, but it was a small beach south of Batemans Bay.

The wind looked like it was picking up but in reality, it was no more than 12knotts (Struggled to keep kite in the air). Still had a good time playing around and practicing my slide turns (it's so much more forgiving when you've got little wind to play with).

I'm gutted I missed the downwinder, sounded awesome. I was down Gerrigong on Sat, gear in hand... plenty of wind, but all off shore... I saw one guy (seemed quite new) try going out with a 9m purple Airrush. After one failed launch (pulled him over the board) he thought better of it and came back in!

Sorry for the let down guys. I'm glad you got out though!

Tony Armstrong said...
"PM Surfboy".

Next time its on plz Tony...
haha.

I didn't end up doing my epic downwinder either.

The only time it got windy enough to inflate my kite on my week long holiday was the afternoon before an incoming storm on Pebbly beach in the Yuraygir National Park. Google map link: www.google.com.au/maps?q=station+creek+nsw&hl=en&ll=-29.943686,153.257711&spn=0.01534,0.027874&sll=-35.167073,149.787598&sspn=1.852329,3.56781&t=h&gl=au&hq=station+creek+nsw&radius=15000&z=16

South easterly was blowing in at about 18 knots so I had a nice session on the beach. Just about all of the campers at the site (about 25 of em) came down to the beach to watch me in action, a couple of them were from regional QLD and have never actually seen kitesurfing in real life before so they thought it was a real treat.

Anyway, storm came in that night and dumped about 150mm of rain in the space of a few hours. Woke up the next morning and half of the campground was ankle deep in water. People's tents were under water, chaos everywhere, but good spirits. The hairiest bit was that to get into this campsite you need to drive along a beach and then cross through a tidal creek at low tide. So after the storm this creek was up to my nuts deep and flowing fast and we wanted to leave that day, as did about 10 other vehicles. Just had to tarp up the front grille and power on through with water half way up the doors and the bow wave washing up to the windshield - and we all made it through sweet.

Good times :)