I took these photos on Friday 21 Feb at St Kilda. Still waiting for my broken leg to heal . . .
More photos here: www.peterskiteboarding.com/2014/02/good-wind-and-fun-kitesurfing-at-st.html
Nice photos Peter. Good to see you're keeping the kiting dream alive, despite your broken leg!
Select to expand quotechino said..
Photo number one: 15 kites at lunch. Nice to see nothing changes about StK!
It's looking straight down the beach when all of the instructors and students are. What do you expect from this????
Select to expand quoteJuz675 said..chino said..
Photo number one: 15 kites at lunch. Nice to see nothing changes about StK!
It's looking straight down the beach when all of the instructors and students are. What do you expect from this????
Yes, that photo is "Lesson Central" - there is a line/circuit of learners along there at various stages of progression. It is not a photo I would usually take as I am normally out kiting, but its interesting to see how many people are taking up the sport.
Once out past the "barrage balloons" of kites at lunch there is still plenty of open water.
I haven't kited St kilda since last summer. Way too busy for my liking. 15 kites at lunch, what do the arvos look like?
Plus 4 or 5 schools teaching all at the same time.
Select to expand quotekungfupete said..
I haven't kited St kilda since last summer. Way too busy for my liking. 15 kites at lunch, what do the arvos look like?
Plus 4 or 5 schools teaching all at the same time.
Oh it's awesome, you should try it. The more the merrier. Where else can you play 'chicken' with a kite?
Select to expand quotekungfupete said..
I haven't kited St kilda since last summer. Way too busy for my liking. 15 kites at lunch, what do the arvos look like?
Plus 4 or 5 schools teaching all at the same time.
Was riding past the beaches about 2 weeks ago. Hampton, 7 kites in the water. Brighton, 10 kites in the water, St Kilda, I lost count at 70 kites in the water and at least another 50 on the beach. And that's not the busiest I have seen it.
I don't get why so many people go there and then whinge about it on here. (not pointing fingers at anyone in this post. But you see it in a lot of responses on this forum)
St Kilda is busy. We get it. There are a lot of schools there. We get it. Lots of learners with kites at 12 while they are learning (and lets not pretend everyone on here wasn't in the same position when they were learning). We get it.
Don't like StKilda. Don't go there. Or if you do, you know its going to be busy. Deal with it and shut the H**l up about it.
*Rant Over*
Select to expand quoteJuz675 said..kungfupete said..
I haven't kited St kilda since last summer. Way too busy for my liking. 15 kites at lunch, what do the arvos look like?
Plus 4 or 5 schools teaching all at the same time.
Was riding past the beaches about 2 weeks ago. Hampton, 7 kites in the water. Brighton, 10 kites in the water, St Kilda, I lost count at 70 kites in the water and at least another 50 on the beach. And that's not the busiest I have seen it.
I don't get why so many people go there and then whinge about it on here. (not pointing fingers at anyone in this post. But you see it in a lot of responses on this forum)
St Kilda is busy. We get it. There are a lot of schools there. We get it. Lots of learners with kites at 12 while they are learning (and lets not pretend everyone on here wasn't in the same position when they were learning). We get it.
Don't like StKilda. Don't go there. Or if you do, you know its going to be busy. Deal with it and shut the H**l up about it.
*Rant Over*
Agreed. From my own experience, you get into a comfort zone learning at St Kilda, particularly if you don't have a kiting buddy. But going somewhere else means you don't have to worry about all those kites and can the concentrate on consolidating skills.
We take friends new to kiting (after their lessons) to other places now and help them out if needed.
Nice pics Peter. Thanks for sharing, but I am glad I don't go there. That is way too crowded for me. Even when I did stand up surfing, I thought 10 guys was too crowded. How I miss the old days back in the 90s when Bells was still relatively "un-discovered" and there would be 10 at the most out on a big 8 foot day. *sigh*
Select to expand quoteKazan said..
Nice pics Peter. Thanks for sharing, but I am glad I don't go there. That is way too crowded for me. Even when I did stand up surfing, I thought 10 guys was too crowded. How I miss the old days back in the 90s when Bells was still relatively "un-discovered" and there would be 10 at the most out on a big 8 foot day. *sigh*
yep often only 5 or 6 out..... good times
Select to expand quoteJuz675 said..chino said..
Photo number one: 15 kites at lunch. Nice to see nothing changes about StK!
It's looking straight down the beach when all of the instructors and students are. What do you expect from this????
Yup. It's a good indication of what the problem with the instructors is like at St K which they somehow expect you to find a gap between
Yep, St. K is to Kiteboarding what Bondi (nsw) is to surfing. It's a ** fight but provides access to watersports for many city dwellers that just wouldn't be able to engaging in this sort of sport otherwise.
Is it my best spot? No. Is it my most visited spot? Yep. Have I had some awesome sessions there doing a pooh stance? You betcha~!
Pic nr 4 (-:
Int anybody telling him that he has is cap the wrong way???
And why the shorts over the wettie?
Select to expand quoteKazan said..
How I miss the old days back in the 90s when Bells was still relatively "un-discovered" and there would be 10 at the most out on a big 8 foot day. *sigh*
That is the biggest load of bull**** I've ever read on seabreeze, 90's, bells relatively undiscovered, spare me.
Select to expand quoteSurfer62 said...Kazan said..
How I miss the old days back in the 90s when Bells was still relatively "un-discovered" and there would be 10 at the most out on a big 8 foot day. *sigh*
That is the biggest load of bull**** I've ever read on seabreeze, 90's, bells relatively undiscovered, spare me.
Yeah I was going to mention that.... Undiscovered was probably not the right word from Kazan... But he is right often on big days 8+ft there was just half a dozen or so out.
I think it may have been a case where everyone assumed Bells would be busy and bypassed it. Being in Anglesea I know I often opted to go further down the coast than backtrack to bells.
That was until I discovered there was hardly anyone out.
Select to expand quoteSurfer62 said..Kazan said..
How I miss the old days back in the 90s when Bells was still relatively "un-discovered" and there would be 10 at the most out on a big 8 foot day. *sigh*
That is the biggest load of bull**** I've ever read on seabreeze, 90's, bells relatively undiscovered, spare me.
Might as well add my voice to the other old timers. Uncrowded waves at popular spots disappeared in the early 80's. Apart from the number of people I think the focus on competition surfing brought in the idea of hassling for waves.
In the 70's you could surf Bells and everybody would be calling each other onto waves and hooting good rides. There was the beginning of crowding where shift work meant that an hour before shift change you would get a corresponding change in the crowd in the water. It was kind of fun.
Select to expand quoteSurfer62 said..Kazan said..
How I miss the old days back in the 90s when Bells was still relatively "un-discovered" and there would be 10 at the most out on a big 8 foot day. *sigh*
That is the biggest load of bull**** I've ever read on seabreeze, 90's, bells relatively undiscovered, spare me.
LOL
Harry hit it spot on. Many times I've seen guys just standing there staring at 10 footers and too **** scared to paddle out.
I remember my "magix moment" at Bells:
Christmas Day 1993 - 10am a lone "old kook" on the beach staring at 10 foot tubes and no one out! He said to me - "Are you going out?". HELL YEAH! I was like - WTF?! No one out and yet here I am on my own? I tripped once running up to the car and it took like 10mins for my adrenalin to subside enough for me to go out and catch some.
I had it pretty much on my own, except for 2 guys that were already out but I could not see them behind the massive boulders. I think they were just starting to paddle out from Rincon.
I'll never forget the first wave I caught that morning. A screamer down the line and a massive bottom turn before I got covered by the lip and started to break more into the tube. It was loud in there! I remember even closing my eyes thinking the lip hit me off the board but then I opened my eyes I was still on it and popping out the other end!
*bliss*
Select to expand quoteKazan said..Surfer62 said..Kazan said..
How I miss the old days back in the 90s when Bells was still relatively "un-discovered" and there would be 10 at the most out on a big 8 foot day. *sigh*
That is the biggest load of bull**** I've ever read on seabreeze, 90's, bells relatively undiscovered, spare me.
LOL
Harry hit it spot on. Many times I've seen guys just standing there staring at 10 footers and too **** scared to paddle out.
I remember my "magix moment" at Bells:
Christmas Day 1993 - 10am a lone "old kook" on the beach staring at 10 foot tubes and no one out! He said to me - "Are you going out?". HELL YEAH! I was like - WTF?! No one out and yet here I am on my own? I tripped once running up to the car and it took like 10mins for my adrenalin to subside enough for me to go out and catch some.
I had it pretty much on my own, except for 2 guys that were already out but I could not see them behind the massive boulders. I think they were just starting to paddle out from Rincon.
I'll never forget the first wave I caught that morning. A screamer down the line and a massive bottom turn before I got covered by the lip and started to break more into the tube. It was loud in there! I remember even closing my eyes thinking the lip hit me off the board but then I opened my eyes I was still on it and popping out the other end!
*bliss*
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^. Patrick Swayze or Walter Mitty ? Sounds just like the Point Break script, 100 year Xmas swell.
Anyways back to the kiddie pond issue 
I think in the 90s people kinda might have heard of bells. ;)
But yeah we surfed it quite a few times with well under 10 guys when winki was 40-50 and agro..
Select to expand quoteelhucko said..
Pic nr 4 (-:
Int anybody telling him that he has is cap the wrong way???
And why the shorts over the wettie?
Classic!
