google earth this so ya get an idea where this occured. Dunno how to cut/paste the picture thingy
31 59'48 S 115 45'07 E
Looks like a great idea. The smooth grass on the golf course greens would have much less wear and tear on the kite than yucky sand filled with sharp shells.
The only risk is that your kite will luff and drag you in front of a car which will kill you, or fall in front of a car causing it to crash into a mother with a pram and kill her and her baby....etc
it's obvious ,the guy had a bad trip then flashbacked to the good
old days when you could fly a kite and nobody cared
intersting to see he wasn't from out of town but a local
... bloody North riders ey, they feel sooooo confindent with their kites that they can feel like they can get away with stunts like this [}:)]
Maybe he didn't wanna get the kite wet???? [}:)]
Jokes aside, whats wrong with landing your kite in water and walking up the lines, if the beach is too narrow, just land it there,, spose you had to be there to understand why he did it! I don't get it!!
cheers,
Robbie
Cottesloe rangers have been given a shoot to kill order, using the council's trusty old .22, to put aggressive magpies, unwanted possums and plonker kiters out of their misery ....
Today is windy enough for kiting, even a teeny tiny wave...............then walk up the path and get a coffee............................. come on fella be a real hero.
If these pics are true, then the beach (I forget the name of the breaks but isn't it 'Firsts' or 'Seconds') directly left of where the cars are lined up is currently a bank of 3m-wide weed, with a strip of 5m-wide gravelly sand followed by a lot of rocks about 10m wide, and then a 12m cliff. He would have had to have climbed up the 40-odd steps by the Cottesloe sun dial to get on the path near the adjacent carapark, then across the road. There would have been lot of bad wind from the Cott SLSC building.
Was there any wind at that time of day?
I smell something fishy here ..... I can't see him in the pics and the lines are awfully faint - although the shot of him dropping it on the golf course would be hard to Photoshop by any means.
^^^^I can
no white caps.
Looks good for a snorkel, but I would take my flippers off before crossing the road.
You would have to watch the up draft comming out of the bunkers.
Then again, a bit of kite soaring between holes could add to the fun.
hmmm i wonder why the dude taking photos didnt get one of the culprit hmmmm maybe its a blooody good wind up !!
If were true i would have stuffed the camera right in his face and made sure everyone knew who it was, if it was an experienced local that would be something for his mate to take the piss out for years to come
If he landed it on the beach, there would be a vitriolic post here about the fkhead noob blah blah who landed on a swimming beach and how all the bans are due to idiots like him etc etc
If he pulled the safety with swimmers around and one person felt a line brush them, it would be just like above.
Tough crowd this one..... nobody in this forum has ever found themselves downwind with no way to get home?
If so, what would you have done if there was swimmers everywhere, a cafe, lifeguards scowling at you, and 10 million bucks worth of (dumb) art exhibition on the beach?
It's a simple error to make really; after an awesome session I once forgot to drop my kite and pack it up.
I was half way home when a passing truck on Scarborough Beach Rd half lofted me, car and all