Hi all,
First a short introduction: My name is Christian and I'm a 23 years old Norwegian on a vacation from nothing to do even less (I pretend to study back home). I just arrived in Avalon after 6 weeks of everyday, off the hook kiting in Brazil. I'll be staying here for the next 3 months or so, and would really appreciate it if there's a true local hero here with time to answer a couple of questions. 
First of all, what spots are good and which wind directions do they work with?
How many kiteable days can I expect a week at this time of the year, if I can go to any spot between Palmy and Sydney at any time?
And finally: Do I need to go to the west coast or take up wave surfing?
Also, if you're by any chance going to a beach in Nsw to kitesurf and don't mind me tagging along, I'd love it if you'd let me know. Thanks!
Cheers,
Chris
Hey Chris
The best spots on the Northern beachs for a seabreeze which north easterly is Palm beach up the north end, sometimes Narrabeen in front of the sands hotel. If its a southerly try Long Reef. But mate if you really want to kite and kite a lot this summer W.A is the place to be you can nearlly kite all week over here its the third windiest city in the world. I've moved a year and a half ago and I can kite 5 to six days out of the week work permitting of course, in Sydney lucky to get three. If you want to travel south go to dolls point but gets crowded.
All the best in your kiting.
hi Chris,
Narrabeen or Long Reef (dee why ) are the best spots for kiting on the northern beaches - and you will get waves at both. Just head down there anytime there is a wiff of a breeze, you are bound to see some kites.
Unfortunately the wind has been a bit down so far this season.
Hopefully it changes soon.
Mark
oh yeah, I forgot the about the north / south thing.....
you may find people up there think ...the north northern beaches are much better than the south northern beaches....
but us lot down here on the southern north beaches think they are full of it...
[}:)]
Thanks for all your help, guys! Guess I better go get myself a surfboard for the off days. Hope to see some of you at Palmy on Sunday if the NE'er decides to show up. Looks like the forecast changed from Sunday to Monday though.
If your local instincts tell you it's looking up and you suddenly find yourselves getting ready to pump your kites, I wouldn't be totally furious if you'd take the time to PM me :)
By the way, is Botany Bay worth checking out?
And does anybody know about a decent gym in the Avalon area that's kinda cheap and not overfilled with PTs and housewives doing yoga?
Again, appreciate your advice.
Chris
Hi Chris,
Have a look at the pdf maps at http://www.nswkba.com.au/
halfway down the homepage, there is one there for North and South Sydney, with more to be added soon.
Have a look at the beach flags graphic on the map, most Europeans don't realise that we can't kite near the flagged swimming areas.
Botany normally gets 5-10kts more than Northern beaches on a NE.
You would be better off going to visit WA check out waksa.org.au.86.aspwebhosting.com.au/
Cheers, see you on the water
Gav
Thanks for the tip Uncle, you're right. Actually stopped by FF earlier today and plan on joining tomorrow.
Loco, yeah Monday might just work. PM me if you're going out!
Er du kommet deg til Sydney nå?
Jeg bor i Curl Curl.
Vært dårlig med vind på Northern Beaches i de 3 mnd jeg har vært her.
Får håpe på bedre vind nå som det blir sommer.
Is it gonna be good enough to kite this sunday..
Its gonns storm its little feet off.
If there is enough wind the rain wont matter.. but the lightening and gusts could be a trouble..
hope we get some decent wind soon.
They are saying this weather is gonna stick for summer.. may be a bad year :(
