Hi All.
The family and I are heading up to Coral bay for a much deserved camping holiday. While I was up there I was hoping to do a bit of kiting.
Has anyone got any info about the area that they could pass onto me please. Thanks.
I'm on my way there, will post anything useful I can, when do u expect to get up there?
Kiting in Coral Bay itself is not allowed by DEC - too many tourists snorkelling....best to head a bit out of town to Maud's Landing - a few k's north to kite there.
There is a spot south of Coral Bay (I think) but don't know it myself.
Mauds Landing isn't very popular as it's pretty choppy and lots of big teeth swimming around but skelly bay at the northern end of coral bay isn't bad. It's a bit of a walk and there's lots of little teeth swimming around certain times of year as it's a black tip nursery though. Juddy is right though about DEC and the snorkelers in the bay.
The old DEC guy in his little hut specifically warned me off kiting in skeleton bay when I asked.
Well I am a nutter from the south... 
The DEC bloke did mention the 'lil reef sharks rooting around and very much preferred I didn't kite there and upset them. I didn't think to ask if this was a seasonal thing or all year round though. I got chatting to the staff at one of the caravan parks there and they generally don't kite in skeleton bay either, if they upset DEC they in turn upset their boss.
It was a non event anyway, no wind and a busted oil seal on the engine meant I spent a glorious week at Immoral Bay with not a kite to be seen.
just got back from a week down there and didn't get out once. Never got to catch any one in the DEC office but walked down to skelley bay and there is a sign showing where to launch your kite or windsurfer but nothing else. I presume your supposed to stay upwind of the sign outside the oyster rocks. Did a few trips to 5 finger reef to the south and the lagoon to the north but didn't find anything overly flat and Mauds is the choppiest out of the lot. I did have a laugh with a few of our mates in blue after pulling them out of a bog on the way to 5 fingers. They had the ass end of the troopie down to the sand with a set of pathetic little max trax under the front tyres while digging (with their hands)sand away from the chassis. After dragging them out of the way I found they had full pressure in the skinny tyres (there is a sign asking everyone to let their tyres down at the start of the track) and hadn't locked their hubs in (to be fair I think they had unlocked the hubs when they reached the sand tracks not realising they were already locked)
ps. anyone know where you can get a sticker for my ute saying police recovery vehicle
