What a sad sad sad world you live in.

Like higher fuel prices,dog beaches,bike helmets and now kiters.Your right its a sad sad world.
With your vast experience and decades under yr belt, shead some light .
windsurfing blinkers
or dose onejust run over anything in ones pathor use a high powered white light.or sit on the beach and reliese doves, then shine the white light BANG.just hit a roo.

My mother in law writes to her local member......
perhaps you should take your gripe to someone paid to listen ?

Not a grip,just have to jump higher,shread harder,sail smarter. Im up for that

I can see the benifit of 100+ kiters in Geraldton

You only need to see whats happened to The Spot over the last 20 years. It's worse than Trigg Point

In answer to the first question...no.

In answer to the second question...no I can't stop the bulldozers, but if the bulldozers are given permission because there isn't much public comment or opposition or focus other than a port...then that's not something anyone who wants it protected want to result. If the public are led to believe that it's just a piece of vacant land that no-one is really interested in then that's not too good either. So it's just a process, it's not a case of expecting the papers to read the week after the comp "Kiting event stops Oakajee!!!" But just maybe, while we have people (don't know where a hundred came from!) competing and making the spot look fantastic for something other than a breakwall and ships, then maybe that might just sway a few more people to get behind the GWC cause to protect a great wave riding spot.

In answer to the spot returning to it's sleepiness...I hope it does. That way I can go up there with my wife (who windsurfs by the way and fought as part of industry inland to protect it the first time) and enjoy it as everyone who uses it now does.

In answer to my ego, I will re-phraze the "I can hold a comp"... to "anyone" can hold a comp at Spot X. All that's needed is an incorporated body to work through. Be it the GWC or any incorporated group. I have offerred a years work of my time as a volunteer to the Geraldton Windsurfing Club to do the work for an event. Now if my ego is in there somewhere, then please point it out, as I'm a bit ignorant in that department.

I'm just offerring to assist where no-one seems to be prepared to. Holding a comp up there was not my idea, the original idea was for a windsurfing comp, but sadly when put out there it seems the return sound was the sound of crickets chirping.

If the GWC and the wider community of windsurfers don't want a competition (be it kiting or windsurfing) at spot X then so be it, I won't do it. It's that simple...it's just a suggestion and that's all that it is.

I will continue to put my money where my mouth is and send submissions to my local MP and do the paper work required to fight the machine. I ask, are you doing something?. If you are just another of the knockers who are happy to kick back and sledge the effort of those who are actually trying to do something you poke your nose in the mirror and look at your own ego. Because somewhere in this it got bumped out of joint.

Dear Hirschausen,
It's pleasing to note that you are under no illusions regarding kite comps stopping bulldozers.
And it's very generous of you to be willing to volunteer your time to organise a kite comp,
even though you are fully aware of the reality of Chinese Mega-dollars vs Windfreaks.

I guessed that you would take my previous reply a little personally..
Believe me, it wasn't intentional.
I'm on your side, man.
I'm not the enemy, apathy is.
I'm saying throw down a huge contest at the spot.
A rock n roll wavekiting comp, SpotX was made for it.
Make it front page news in the Gero local rag.
Heck, what have you got to lose ???????
(Only SpotX and Coronation Beach I guess) ?

You know,
I have empathy for your struggle.
I can relate to the loss of surfbreaks caused thru engineering projects.
I'm in Mandurah and we lost a reefbreak formerly known as Dixieland.
It was blasted to little pieces during the construction of the Dawesville Channel in the 90's.
And at the same time we gained double breakwaters(forming the entrance) just south of Avalon Point(my local).
These breakwaters affect the wind and sand movements.

However, we may have lost Dixieland and ended up with a gusty pointbreak,
but we gained a man-made beachy off the southern breakwater.
A beachy that's a nice little swell magnet and a real alternative during those mindnumbing flat spells.

I guess I'm saying I'm a fatalist.
Everything is predetermined.
After the event, I'll always grab the positive and ignore the negative.

My suggestion to the Gero waveriding windfreaks:
Lobby for a man-made surfbreak as part of the scope of works.
That might be the only real card that you can play.
Good luck.

THE NEW SPOT.

"Believe me man, this spot cranks"!
It just needs the right tide,
the right size swell,
the right wind direction,
the right swell direction,
the right wind speed,
and not too crowded.....
and it's perfect.
lol.