Be careful dave...... i love going to the butter flat super shallow area that is the windsurfing bit and sharing.

Maybe they went downwind cause the tide was so low and had no choice?

Its all there for everyone. Just need to take care and keep a look out.

How well is it marked???

Any windsurfer that intrudes in a kite surfing area is asking for trouble!!!
I'm one of the windsurfers that think the 2 should be seperated where possible, sometimes it's hard enough to figure out what another windsurfer is going to do, with out having to worry about kites as well.

If it's in waves and there's only one break it gets harder to divide the area fairly, then you just all have to be real carefull.
But where there's defined areas it's in everybody's interests to stick to them.

hey dave. Some windsurfers have always launched someway downwind of the carpark and some prefer not to use the carpark at all. This has been the case for many years before kites came along. I don't think any rule has somehow happend but we generally keep to our own areas.

RULES ARE FOR FOOLS AND THE WISE WILL INTERPRATE

BURN ALL SIGNS

In the past couple of years have not seen any issues at Melville. The two zones are respected and those that inadvertantly setup in the wrong spot are advised politely of the correct spot for them.

I have seen a few of both teams passing through each others zones to go somewhere, but they don't hang around. Some of the learners windsurfers get blown down that way, but they are usually near the beach and get off and walk back after a while.

On a norwester it is a little different, 'cause both teams are hooning along the shore, and to get a decent run need to cross over into each others patch. There is a lot more room for all with this direction though, so there is usually no conflict.

I remember when i was learning to windsurf I used to sail there, I regularily ended up down in the kiters section because I was too gumby to be able to stay upwind. Some times u cant help but end up down wind if its average conditions, and its the last thing I want

I like to kite in the widsurfers cause they make me look cooler than i am..

I was sitting with my daughter at Scarborough beach last weekend. Kites were spread from Brighton beach up to the northern car park at Scarborough. I counted approx 25 up at any one time. About 5 crew on sailboards. All seemed ok when viewing from afar.

What made me laugh was the tool with the practice kite on the beach at Northern car park at Scabs. Excuse me, but isn't a bit dangerous, learning to fly a kite, that is lifting you off the ground, when you don't have any control, in a public area, with families about?

I sat from afar waiting for this tool to loose control and collect someone. Sure enough, Mr Kite-Tool lost control, and off down the beach travels Mr Kite, with Mr Tool lying on is arse 100m away. Fortunately no one was hurt.

One day a kiter will hurt an unsuspecting member of the public, and guess what, the law suit will be on. The winners will be the lawyers; the losers will be idiots like the tool mentioned above, as well as the kite community.

Segregated areas are a natural evolution that is practical and efficient. Latitude is required to make them work, fortunately this happens majority of the time.

Unfortunately the best intentions of both communities will be affected by idiots like Mr Kite-Tool. How do you think a local government will act, when they are dragged in front of the Beak, having to explain why they didn't protect the public on their "patch"? Prohibition in public areas comes to mind.

Don't put authorities in a position of having to police a sport as a result of having their arses sued off. Try and stick to segregated areas, and most importantly, take responsibility for your own actions, whatever circumstances you find yourself.

Trying to make segregated areas work will be in the interest for all. Both water users public.

hasnt that already happened in cott. The prohibited bit. Which is why they are all going from that carpark north of dutch in. I heard that was the only place they are allowed in cottlesloe. Though I may be wrong... hearsay and all