Go to London and check out the River Thames, doesn't look that bad either. Don't reckon I'd go for a swim in it tho' but like thecopterdr says each to their own. No need to call the cop that's just out of order.
Problem is all the beaches in the SEQ coast isn't going to be too different. Maybe a few less jet skis floating from the Brisbane CBD, but that's about it.
You guys will bitch at whatever you can. Rhys Simply put a post up to let everyone know it's not a good idea to kite at Sandgate or Brighton for a few days but it wasnt law. You can do what you want. I kited the last 3 days but **** shore it wasnt at either of those two beaches and that was my choice. Grow up and find something else to whinge about.
I went down to the beach on Thursday and to my amazement kiters where out at both beach's, At the end of the day it was no more bad taste than the refugee jokes after the Xmas Island boat over xmas.
The difference was this has happened in our own back yard.
The young guys at Sandgate yesterday afternoon where looping straight over families standing on the walkway, crashing the kite twice into the water inches from trees and a couple of meters from bystanders."All in 1/2hr"
Then one pulled off a shallow water beach landing that nearly took the heads off another family.
I'm sure you all think the beach is yours and who the F&^k can tell you not to kite there, the issue is this is what kiting at Brighton and Sandgate has now been associated with during a great disaster is not one that I signed up for to promote with Brisbane Kite Kite.
Nobody remembers the guys that do the right thing just the d&*kheads.
Hard to promote our members as responsible and safe kiters when this type of thing occurs.
I spent today cleaning houses at Indooroopilly helping a mate and strangers that I have never met before, the wind will always be there, hopefully we will never see another disaster like this ever again.
Keep on kiting guys Your doing a cracking job of promoting the right image.
Be careful ** canning guys over this issue, people have lost family members and emotions are very raw ATM.
Thoughts and prayers with those lost.
Richard
Maybe if your all so concerned all the time you have wasted writing **** on here you could have been helping people too! If you don't want to kite fine ,more room for the people who enjoy kiting not just talking about it !
Kiting seems to attract all the grumpy control freaks, show ponies and wet blankets.
Give it a rest.
If someone wants to kite, let them kite. It's their risk. They've paid their medicare levy.
If someone doesn't wanna kite, shut up and don't kite.
Why does everyone wanna be the boss of someone else?
If there is show ponies risking the safety of the public, say something to them at the beach, or let the authorities do it.
kite / don't kite I don't give a toss .Go somewhere else Brighton beach it closed for clean up ,there are heavy machines running round ,council workers trying to clean up ,locals / kids trying to clean up ,if your that desperate for a kite go, up or down the coast in the cleaner water and keep out of the way of the clean up teams.
I'm trying to represent the local kite club ,and it's not a good look when we get idiots out paddling round in the sewage ,not only is there a **** load of rubbish in the water ,it's all the nasties you can't see which is the problem,you guys wanna end up in hospital with tubes hanging out of you ,or sitting on the crapper for the next week go ahead ,just go somewhere else...
Jay
I wouldn't be worried about the pollution so much as SOME of the kiters at Brighton.
It used to be a great spot but now it has turned into a kookfest, Near misses occur there with alarming regularity
Those of you who don't know Brisbane /Moreton bay ,the beach at Brighton / Sandgate is directly down wind ( the last couple of weeks prevailing E - SE winds ) and about 6-8 NM of the mouth of the Brisbane River ,most of the crap you see floating down the river on the TV is ending up on he beaches of this side of the bay , each high tide brings another load of crap , Like I said if your that desperate go up the coast and hit the clean ocean ..
If you were actually worried about pollution & debris in the water you'd never kite at sandgate.
It's always like that
Cumon guys lets look at the big picture here. There have been kiters down at sandgate and brighton cleaning up the beach as much as they can for the last few days and good on them for doing it. If they choose to kite in the water then i guess its there health and thats that. I spoke to a guy from unity water today who had seen results of water tests in the bay who said we where at risk of ear and throat infections and infections in any existing cuts and abrasions and that made me decide to not kite till it clears a little. I kited at Scaborough for the past 2 afternoons with no problems touch wood but to start having a go at our beaches in a normal state is just plain childish (Wishy). Maby instead of the who's right and who's wrong like normal on here You could stop and think of the people who cant go out and enjoy any sporting activities because there gear has all been washed away. I am still trying to locate a mate from the Lockyer Valley and see this **** as pathetic. Move on...
thanks to people who got out there today and cleaned up the beach.. bloody water tanks .
A few pics from after most of the debris had been piled onto the beach there. And while I feel that kiting in it at the moment is a personal preference kind of thing, the smell blowing in was putting me off.
so is it legal to kite at Brighton now? wouldn't mind seshing it up there again tomorrow if da northerly kicks in
really? from what i've been reading on here its against the law... i've been on da train checking out surfers and OZ zoo cos Brighton was "off limits" according to several ppl on here.
But i'll check it out tomorrow if the wind kicks in
lols ppl don't like my comments on here... thumbs down from a pretty innocent comment. Anyway checked out Sandgate after getting screwed over yet again by vodafone OZ (can't get a simcard to work in these shores). Found a very light breeze despite windmeters reading at least 15 knots lols... 15 knots is usually ON for me... i have gear that has me powered in those winds.. my 11m waroo with Luke's Shinn boards does the trick. But what i saw at da beach was definately NOT 15 knots haha.
So i guess that for me to get the green light to go kiting i have to get the green arrows on here hehe...
all good cos 2morro i'm seshin it up at something that my homeland (NZ) so desperately needs... a CABLEPARK. Lake Papuke would be perfect haha... Panmure basin even better but tide issues there
