Euros take note before you travel all this way
Go to Egypt, way closer and now they will have new president 
The excitment built as we traveled 4000ks across Australia from the east to spend 10 days on a road trip from Perth to Gero and anywhere in between the wind blew and the waves rolled in. Surely in 10 days we would get some epic conditions!
Having kited with miss Jess and meeting a few WA locals down at the corona (thanx for the tips bevo
)I was told my east coast 10 & 12 rally's would be to big, lucky I took them cause thats all I needed 
Sure we ended up with wind most days, but we couldn't bare to kite more than about an hour in the average conditions on the days there was some wind.
Travelling through the northern suburbs of perth checking out the spots we hear so so much about on seabreeze we couldn't help noticing the lack of wind and waves
Using the search function on seabreeze we concluded the further north u go the windier it gets and there are actually waves, so Lano was our first stop and was surprised they let the dogs sh!t on the grass and provide doggy poo bags for the occasion but wont let the kitesurfers rig up, Not the best of first impressions of this joint
Got me beat why they treasure it so much as the grass bit has heaps of seaweed out the front.
check out this kiter we had to rescue from the quicksand like seaweed, it's like about 4 foot deep 
And the sign that effetivly rates kiters less than dog poo like wtf!
Over the years I have seen the famous Point Moore light house in many a photo shoot and have always wanted to check it out, we met up with a local down at the beach and he recomened to go snorkling with him
To top it all off we seen the forcast after kitestock and we all couldn't get to our smart phones quick enough and actually paid money to leave the place quicker and changed our flights to a day earlier cause the forcast was looking more of the same.
thanx tighlines for putting us up on the last night, shame we couldn't hang around and kite another day 
But hey the water looked like a postcard and the people were great and it was better than work.
Lucky you didnt come over last year for kitestock! you would be complaining about too much wind! 25+ from lunchtime onwards
winge winge bloody winge dont you no its never windy on the west coast. beats me why everyones think that.
quote the sign
"KITE SURFING ACTIVITIES PROHIBITED FROM THIS PARK"
so would you be breaking any rules if you kited from another starting point to that park ?????
... dude, its been sh!t all over the world with wierd weather, thanks La Nina!!!! Went last year to Gero and had a fat time, this year it was ordinary, but what the hell, you gotta take what you get given. Sh!t happens dude!
cheers,
Robbie
ps me thinks the post was to discourage too many people coming, fair enough!
"WA wind & waves the perfect spot, is it all hype!"
Too true
Bye Bye
Been telling you eastern staters this for years.
NO wind or waves in WA
God knows what the hell I have been doing all summer!!!!
Make sure you tell ALL your mates now!
Dont waste your time coming over here.
There is no wind or waves
Did you hear about the car load of unfortunate Euro kiters who rented a car in Perth and the drove all the way to Carnarvon to ride a rather too well known reef break on a remote sheep station. only to find the road flooded and likely to be so for weeks [and likely to be doing so again in fact as we speak]. Anyway they had to turn right back around again and drive the 1000ks back.
... how lucky were the missus and I!!!!! We came to Perth for the Big Day Out (which was epic btw, viva la Rammstein), and out of the 4 days, we had 2 great days and 2 ordinary! Loved it! Oh, and the guys at AKS Aus Kiteboarding shop were super nice!
cheers for now,
Robbie
Well i think he is pretty close to the mark especially swell wise.
I have been lamenting the fact for years that we should live on the Australian costline and here in Perth it is a cruel twist of fate that we should be given the sort of surf conditions we have.
Talk to any surfer and they will tell you the same thing - these conditions extend most of the time all the way up the coast through Summer, and down south is really the only conistant surfing to be had in the windy season, and even down there it can be on the small side for long stretches.
and the Paradox is, you go down South where a bit more swell is and then the winds are not as consistant.
Of course this is not always the case - look at the Cyclone swell the other Sunday - that produced the one best day of sufing - but guess what it was down South - Trigg point would of been ok and a few other spots but a once in a lifetime to produce the best waves ??
And yes, i will call the wind is not as good as a lot of crew claim - six out of seven days through summer ?? - perhpaps more like four after it is all averaged out.
Though with such a weather reliant sport the lack of conditions can hit at anywhere at anytime.
I was on the North Shore of Hawaii in peak season one year and it was flat the whole week i was there, this also happened for a section of time I had in J Bay.
Though we do get our fair share here in WA, and when it is on it can be really on -
but crew have been talking it up for years on Seabreeze - just so ensusiastic I suppose.
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Out of interest how many times did you hear the sentence"Should been here last year" over the KS weekend
No.
Whilst all the other kitesurfers in WA were drowning their sorrows at kitestock, somewhere in WA I kited with a load of windsurfers from perth in 25knot winds and 4-5ft waves.
You went to the wrong spot. Look at the forecast. Its always on somewhere.
WA is completely over-rated. Either too much wind and no swell or swell and no wind.
it is all hype. WA is crapola when you really think about it.
It's got nothing to do with la-nina or the associated cyclones, it gets only marginally better.
East coast way more options, euros don't know why you waste your money.
Yeh WA is over-rated totally...
Lets face it Kiting in Perth is big because the surf is crud and there is nothing else to do except go to bed when the sun gos down at 7 pm and the wind is generally pretty reliable .Kiting is frought with potential dissapointment due to the fickleness of wind (particularly in a La Nina year )and potentially big expense which is why on the whole it is tiny sport compared to just about anything else beside croquet .Ivorwindyas is right it will always be windy somewhere else when the place you're at is crap .(BTW the weekend here was pretty epic s and ssw wind and good swell and no crowds just to make you feel even worse )
Whatever anyone has to say there is nothing like having one last session of kiting into a brilliant summer sunset.
WA is where it happens.
Back in the 80's, that stinking seaweed soupbowl was once a super wide, hardpacked sandy parking lot. ^^^
It would accommodate about 30 cars with a track at the back.
It was a cool windscene but mega-erosion changed Lano.
Just got back from 5 weeks in the states. 22 days snowboarding and we didnt see one snowflake. The white was as hard as a rock.
Cost me thousands.
Did I whinge? Not once. Fu@k I loved it.
My beer glass is half full.
), at the moment the weed is just sitting on the north side of the point and covering abot 600 metres of beach to the north. Must be a few thousand tonne of the stuff.
Thats cool Egypt is the place
We got a couple at another spot further north and we also get them around Newcastle, but they always seam to disappear and never hang around like those did, amazing how long they stayed with you
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blue north kite yeah?
No, saturday was on 8m green/brown F1 bandit, sunday on a black/blue 5m bandit. I remember seeing a guy on a blue north kite though at somepoint on the weekend.
Way more shark sightings and attacks on the west coast 
Stick to the east coast its got cheaper accomodation and more chicks that are prepared to lounge around look good and service the lads
Yeh Egypt is definately the go tho I kited with dolphins last week (5 minutes) in P.....somewhere on earth..... 2 adults and a baby that kept leaping clear of the water 2 metres in front of me.....lucky the wind was **** as it always is here so as to keep the dolphins safe from kiters
