Personaly i would have to say perth. I do live here and i haven't sailed in sydney or melbourne, but from about sept/oct to march there is wind. If you are starting in the waves WA is perfect for you, as there are many differnt conditions from small waist high to mast and a half plus. It really is a windsurfers paradise

Aviad

I live in Perth and sailed Dahab 2 years ago, for two weeks. It's a good spot, but no were as good as Perth. We have waves for every level, from gentle rolling ..... to fast,down the line, heavy and big. If you like sailing you will love Perth. I've never been to the east coast though. I agree with shmage.

you'll will note that most readers of this BB live in Perth and cannot perceive that there is life worth living anywhere else.

Have a look at www.windsurfingnsw.com and work your way through to the gallery pages or read Jespers trek on the east coast here http://www.steveallen.pl/news/east_oz.htm or just look at the pics here.... www.nswwavesailing.org/gallery.asp

As you can see Australians love their respective areas and we won't be convinced otherwise (I'm from Best Australia).

Don't know about sailing on the east coast but WA has about 2000km's NT-Sth and another 1000km's W-E of coastline.

I must admit though there is a whole lot of nothing (relatively speaking) between places, so much so that when we talk about how far it is to a place we generally refer to it in hours/days not distance.

Melbourne and Sydney are our more cosmopolitan cities with our largest populations. Perth is a big country town in comparison, but it only takes me just on an hour to travel 100km's from work in town to home (try doing that over east).

Check the cost of realestate WA has just gone through a pricing boom, but it is still dirt cheap in comparison to the east coast.

Wherever you go the people are great you can't really go wrong.



Alby


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