Went down to to the beach in Scarb yesterday with the kiddies to cool down.
Looks like another 5000 people had the same idea.
In the space of an hour, I realised that kiting may be other soon at my local.
I am doing the usual downwinder everytime the green arrows appear and the crew has always been pretty awesome.
People respect the flags and not too many hoons in front of the ampitheater.
There is no major issues with beach goers as no one enjoys getting sand blasted over 20 knots.
Yesterday was probably blowing 10 to 15 knots so not worth kiting in my book, but i never realised how many clowns are out there on windless days.
Someone was teaching body dragging on the beach in the middle of the crowd!!!(to his credit, he did take his 2 students further down towards Trigg when I told him that he couldn't teach a beginner to body drag on the sand with a seven meter in a crowd).
Another hero attempted a self land right in the crowd only to have the kite relaunch across the window and get drag running 40 meters jumping over people(I ended up landing him).
Kites were back stalling all over the place due to the lack of wind and people showing off in the midlle of the swimmers everywhere.
Big kites are slow and boring, you end up only lawn mowing as the kite turns so slow.
As much as I hate to admit it, there will definately be accidents and the tools will waste it for us all.
I vote for an outright ban at the metropole beaches unless there are green arrows on seebreeze.
Red thumb away.
But what happens like yesterday. I went for a SUP in morning, stayed away from the surfers not to piss them off, fair enough.
So at 4pm wind was 15 to 18, waves a little washed our, I'd never think abut surfing them, and there's four guys still in the water - why is beyond me!
But we were getting some serious states and some lip, we tried our best to stay well clear, but they were sitting directly on top of the take off zone, albeit to take a drop straight down the face with the waves closing down on every one. With a kite we could chase the next clean section.
So they have had from 530 to 4pm to surf, we get two hours then get a fair degree of lip.
Go figure. I even dropped next to them and said fellas take whatever wave you want we will not get in your way, have fun.
What to do?
Yes, but not everyone has all day off to fit into those time frames.
Some people might only have 2 hrs in the arvo to get there surf addiction fix in, so will go for a paddle even if it is messy.
Its a big farken coast line, just move down the beach a bit or to the next beach.
Going for a relaxing surf to de-stress is not much fun with kiters buzzing all round you. And arent you supose to keep 50m away from other water uses????
Would be like you going for a kite with jetskis buzzing around you.
Its a faaaarrrrkkken huge coast line, leave the only 2 surfers on there 15m bit of water alone.
No matter what the conditions are like, they have just as much right to be in the water as you. You are not SPECIAL, even if your mum lies and said you are.
^^^^âhhhhhh one of the special ones
Im having more fun than you in the surf (in you limited opinion) so I can break the rules, weave around the surfers and do what I want cause Im getting more waves.
How are the waves in Canberra by the way.
Sebol,
Looks like your thread got hijacked [}:)] no point whinging on here mate it amounts to Sweet FA. My approach is to have a word on the beach when you can but dont stress about it too much there is only so much one person can do.
After you've done your bit on the beach for the good of keeping the beach open for the future of kiting; stand back and enjoy the spectacle; it's truely amusing 
^^^^^
Fair call but it saddens me, I do the downwinder 3 or 4 times a week when the wind is in, it is pure joy to catch up with my mates , a couple of calls and we catch up at the usual spot for a session 5 mn from my job then the obligatory coffee at my pad after.
If the metro beaches get an outright ban, this will mean at least 45mn drive to two rocks or further and will cut out our water time by 80%.
I am also training my young grommet daughter and am really looking forward to share the magic but I fear that it may never happen.
Shame, because we are usually doing some real late calls, starting at Floreat at 6.30pm to 7.30pm and the crowd isn't really an issue so I trully believed that the pessimistic post were from drama queens (remember the windsurfer who got hit by an unknown kiters 3 times in 2 sessions!!!!).
Well, the circus at Scarb this weekend certainly made me change my views, my three daughters under 11 in the water was a concern but I made some great progress on my studies of the poo stance
ps: surfers rule the break, they have to bloody paddle for the privilege of catching a few waves and I get 100 in a session effortlesly so they deserve the room.
