Too true deano, goes for anywhere, just stay the FO of the flagged areas!

Steven, Please retract your statement, some new kiter might not get your humour and could write off OUR beach for kiting thinking hes being hilarious grinding the flag poles.

Which it wouldn't be.

I look forward to your retraction...

WTF!! in a public forum
Sooo not funny,

bingles said...

How many kiters are even in tassie??

More than you'd think. Only a fraction of us are on the forum.

The last thing we want is a kitemare involving non kiters, especially locals just enjoying their beach the same way they have for the last upteenth years, and someone getting hurt or worse. A little bit of healthy respect and common sense goes a long way! We have looked into it, and we are on a bit of shaky ground with the airport exclusion zone affecting a big whack of our everyday kite spots. New kiters and deviants please don't get the banhammer bought down on us. Come to a Ducks Nuts weekend to get loooooooooooooooooooooose with it!!!

Red thumbs eh?? Interesting, considering i asked for a little bit of clarification on something.

Thanks for the friendly reminder for the world to see on the net

Maybe a simple word to the person in question could have been adequate.

Deano started it...

not a very well written piece of journalism either. Highlights the point though. Wonder if it was a learner kiter or a land boarder? They do sell safetys with all new gear with instructions right? (and everyone is making sure that whoever you sell your old gear to has a safety that works?). Lots of new kiters out there, keep an eye out for them doing weird stuff!!

for those that haven't been following the altona dog beach forum- the council have started enforcing a existing law which has effectively closed the beach to kiters, the parallels for southern tasmania are a little worrying with several of the southern beaches(cremorne, carlton, clifton) technically in the airport exclusion zone.Apparently comments made on sea breeze forums in jest were used against kiters in discussions with the council involved.

you'll i find a map in this thread, www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/Tasmania/How-Near-to-the-Hobart-Airport-can-we-Kite/
My understanding is that the exclusion zone extends at 45 degrees fro the end of the runway for 20nm and forbids anything above dune height. Kiters have been asked to leave parts of 7 mile in the past.

no one out, sneaky kite here from 1500 to 1700 last sunday, warm 24 degs, blue skies, westerly at 15 to 30 knots according to airport obs

only a scary jump / loft a few times :|