I have just spent the weekend kiting just south of Perth in Mandurah, WHAT A LOAD OF ****E!!

Gusty as, not even close to as much wind as Perth or the Pond, really shallow, **** loads of weed, small cramped launching spot, loads of agro guys on the beach and this one guy shouting any time he did any tricks or jump. really ****ing annoying. Plus there are these fish they call cobbler which if you stand on one will send you to hospital. I did did not stand on one but I did have a crab bit my foot when I was standing in the shallows.

No wonder no one kites in Mandurah and those that do head up to the Pond.


What a waste of a weekend

Haha... people will try anything to stop kiters kiting at Mandurah as it starting to get to crowded now.

I think everywhere is getting crowded. Scarbs, Melville, Woddies the pond. I can understand the locals getting pissed. Then again it's ****. So next time I head to Mandurah I'll go fishing not kite surfing. I win, Locals win as one less person on the beach.

I take it you met waveslave then..

Only good thing in Mandurah is the blue swimmer crabs and the train line to Perth.

Maybe it should be in lonely planet?

The pond is just as **** . 60 kiters in one little turd bowl all giving each other the stink eye when in each other's way.
I don't kite flat water anymore but I've kited this on the estuary a few years ago on a 22 -25 knot day on butter flat water and not one other
person kiting it.I had the whole place to myself.Get away from the tourist traps and you will find

I randomly found myself in Perth a couple of years back and had a weekend up my sleeve. Went to the pond one day. There was 20 or so dudes jamming themselves in the little flat water spot then maybe another 5 or so out front playing in the tiddlers of waves. Apparently it wasn't a busy day.

Any way. The next day we go further south. I can't remember the name of the place. Maybe secret habour? It had a nice little wave easy launch and land on the beach. No body else kiting there at all.

So one place is jammed packed with dudes and 10 mins down the road.... nobody.

I just left WA, The pond was getting out of control. Newbies kiting in offshore winds, people everywhere. I'm kinda happy with my stinky winds and ****ty tides.

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Plummet said..
I randomly found myself in Perth a couple of years back and had a weekend up my sleeve. Went to the pond one day. There was 20 or so dudes jamming themselves in the little flat water spot then maybe another 5 or so out front playing in the tiddlers of waves. Apparently it wasn't a busy day.

Any way. The next day we go further south. I can't remember the name of the place. Maybe secret habour? It had a nice little wave easy launch and land on the beach. No body else kiting there at all.

So one place is jammed packed with dudes and 10 mins down the road.... nobody.

Standard fair in WA lol

Gosh. Sounds worse than St Kilda on a bad day

Mandurah is terrible for kiting.. Everyone should stay at the pond

Some insight to balance the double entendre's...

There is a relatively high coastal ridge south of Wannanup that the southerely breeze needs to get over hence creating gusty conditions with any west in the wind.

I heard somewhere the Mandurah estuary has 3 times the water capacity as the Sydney harbour (not definite about this but you get the picture, it's a bloody big water body of water) with a relatively thin coastal land strip (and that ridge).

As the colder ocean wind 'fills in' the rising thermals from the land, it then hits this large body of relatively less warm water (or the air above it at least).

hence you will notice the mandurah wind lifts (as normal with the south west change) but then drops back. It can then lift again, but tends to oscillate at times between south west, South south west, South and at times even back to west south west. That ridge then comes into play a fair bit.

This doesn't happen all the time, but most times if you know what I mean.

..and yes the water can be shallow, crabs, cobblers, weed, bla bla bla but those become irrelevant if the wind is smoking.

But this poorer wind quality is countered by the general lack of crowds as well.

Nothing better than to feel the consistent power of the mid west breeze over your shoulder when you are dealing with these type of conditions most of the time in summer here.

But honestly just come down knowing what you could be in for and mow the lawn with the rest of them, have fun and grab a crab or two for dinner when you get back home...

ps sounds like that local lad had one hell of a night. it was actually a bit nippy down here last night and blew all bloody night. He must have been freezing! Glad he's all okay.

Bigger surface area perhaps ? (But doubtful) Certainly way less water. For Sure.

Been down those a few times last season and twice this year. Not worth the drive tbh.

Yeah it was some great bits of flat water and some alright surf spots but dont trust the forecast, the wind meter is unreliable and when the wind is up it doesnt stay consistent. One min you are lit up like xmas the next you are floundering.

Plus that spot people land and launch is dangerously small and have seen kites fall out of the sky every time ive been there. Wouldn't be surprised if it gets blocked off sometime soon.

Oh and yea whats up with that squealing guy?