My wife and I stayed and kited in this spot last August for 2 weeks. I'm pretty sure I met Don (the guy implicated), though I think the profile photo of him is out of date.

It's a beautiful area but we didn't enjoy kiting there due to all the rules and intensity of multiple beach users squabbling over the territory and right to be there (fishermen, tourists, kiters, kayaks etc). We tried to be respectful of all the rules and asked the local kiters for info, but without exaggeration, if the rules were written down it would be over one page's worth...

At the time we were there, the local cops were present most of the time but more so to check up on all the homeless people breaking into cars and causing trouble.

It's a shame it's escalated / degraded to this and it sucks for the locals. But you know what?, for the rest of us choosing overseas holidays, there are a 1000 better places to kite around the world than that spot, it's crowded, choppy and the wind averages 5-15 knots.

kiterdad said...
**** hawaii

go to taiwan

#### Taiwan , go khazikstan

hahaha :) :) :)

yeah i'll pay that cauncy

Typical of cops everywhere these days. More interested in revenue raising than catching criminals. Maybe they should just carry donation tins rather than guns.
The Salvos have a nice uniform!!

Surfer62 said..
Not a citation as in "well done" but as in you committed an offence, see story below.

www.civilbeat.org/2015/03/kailua-crime-scene-busted-for-helping-launch-kites-from-beach/

And your one of them

That's just plain ridiculous. No ones ever gonna blow a windsurfer!!

pearl said..

jackforbes said..
This is why I never launch or land anybody. It's basically a gateway crime - one day you're launching a kite, the next you're blowing a windsurfer to get a few dollars to buy meth. And from there it is a slippery slope to foul language and jaywalking.

That has to go down as one of my all time favourite posts

Epic!