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Duh...it's when you drink one packet of Fybogel in the morning, have an apple for lunch and then have another packet of Fybogel in the afternoon.
Right on Buschy.... Reli suffers from irritable bowel syndrome..........can't kite for weeks and is asking inane questions.
Unfair ???
whatever angle you look at it those FU^&W!TS SHOULD NOT BE KITING THERE !!!
(Unless they want our sport banned)
I wonder how many kiters out there are aware of this,if we arent carefull these rules can be enforced on us
www.rms.nsw.gov.au/maritime/index.html
why kite at scarborough swimming beach or Triggs swimming beach on a easter saturday ? - warm and a 18knot breeze and packed with swimmers, unless you want to take the risk of dropping the kite in the pack of swimmers. unfortunately a lot of kiters consider they wont drop their kite and are in complete control, yeah right, thats ok 99 times out of 100, until a dredging beach break hits them. fair enough doing a downwinder and staying out from the swimmers but to cut through a busy swimming beach to chase a couple of waist high wind waves is looking for trouble, eventually. there is plenty of beach south of scarborough and north of swanbourne (excluding swimming areas at city & floreat) where you can push the limits.
IMO the swimming beach (flagged) should be off limits to kiters, surfers, poleys and jetskis
Ahh **** it. Let it be banned from public beaches if it saves idiots hurting innocents.
There's no waves around perth, and melville is gusty and crap; if you wanna kite go to woodies. If you don't like flat water, go somewhere there's waves.
The problem is people doing down winders passing through all the flags along their way doing **** that I wouldn't even think about doing in the situation and I'm clearly the better kiter out of them and me on most occasions. [not floating my boat, pointing out that better skilled kiters wouldn't even do it] So they have no excuse, hopefully as it's the end of the season WAKSA can take the winter break to sort out something to stop this happening next season, other than that I'm looking forward to the real waves come winter. Maybe more than just me and kitecrazzzy will experience Dutchies going overhead this winter.
Perth doesnt even have decent kitable waves in summer except for brighton-trigg stretch...even then the amount of beach walkers makes this stretch of beach unacceptable to safely kite in(especially in the opinion of the general public).
3 years ago kiting on a strapless surfboard was only done by a handfull of riders, usually in winter and was done by experienced riders who were bored and knew how to kite.
Now people with no surfing background are doing downwinders from leighton to trigg, through swimmers, dogs, snorklers and beach walkers, Doing little snappy turns on knee high waves 5-20 meters from shore.
This year the kiting ban from Port beach to the walkway during summer was basically ignored, as were the bouys at Melville, as were WAKSA members only at dutchies(downwinders dont seem to count).
**** in your own nest at your own peril, blaming euros/tourists is a cop out.
Kiting WILL get banned in Perth at many beaches as the 1%ers will make councils regulate. Ive seen many simplistic answers but no practical ones.
Mabe kiting in 2020 will look something like this.: Pay for every session at a designated kite beach, pay for a parking spot (if theres one available)be in the eyesight of a designated kite-safety officer who can take your permit off you, especially if youre on P-Plates......Go there on a day when it's cranking to find the maximum number of riders is filled
