Can anyone tell me, is the river mouth a no go in straight northerlies or does the wind still find its way in?
Is the Any good flat water places for a northerly?
Cheers
Most of the time the wind will have a bit of east in it so maroochy is still good, other options on the sunny coast are the noosa river mouth or the double island point lagoon, but you will need a 4wd to get there.
cheers.
Yeah cheers, go up to DI quite abit but haven't kited up there yet. And at the Noosa river mouth what side can you launch from? Also what about lake weyba? Cheers
Yeah Wyeba sucks balls. Boreen point or Golden Beach are much better options. Boreen in a northerly and golden beach in a Southerly (flood tide). Boreen is a bit of a drive but you generally get it to yourself and if you stuff up you don't have to worry about tides or deep water.
Yeah weyba sucked hard, kite would power up at 12 lifting me out of the water so the i would sign the kite and get edge, next minute, wind drops out, kite floats down, was so ****! Whats golden beach like? pretty new to kitesurfing but picked it up so quick but still dont feel confident going out unless there are others out and what not..
Sorry to sound negative , but you scare me.
from your posts you have had one lesson kiting about a week so of time on water ,have FA experience, probably no prior wind sport experience, and then go and set up for a kite in a lake surrounded by trees on a gusty 22-28knt day, the next thing I'm waiting to here is that you were trying to hold a 12m. Sounds like your aiming to make the news ! Get some more supervised time and aim to get out on the open beaches, least the wind is more consistent and plenty of space for launching etc , lot safer, maybe spend some time with the kite in light winds without a chicken loop also so you actually will learn some respect for the power of it, and don't kite anywhere near me, your scary.
I have got heaps of prior wind sport activities and I do understand how strong the wind can be. I was using a 10 m btw. And I don't need any more supervised time as I would be wasting my money said the instructor. had one lesson for which I spent two hours of the two and half on the board riding by myself and have had plenty of days of just body dragging, unhooking in light winds and what not.
There were three other guys more experienced then me also having the same problem yesterday.
Golden beach is pretty good on the right tide, flooding in a SE and ebbing in a NE. When the tide is dropping watch out for the channels as the water funnels through there very quickly. If you drop your kite in one of those sections you wont get it up again if its a wind with tide situation. There are some massive sand bars that sit just under the water though, body drag out to one of them and muck around practicing turns and jumps..there are usually a few kiters around when its the right time to be kiting and they are a friendly helpful bunch.
