Photo number one: 15 kites at lunch. Nice to see nothing changes about StK!

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????

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.

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*

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*

Juz675 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

All those kites at 12 it looks like midnight mass...

Pic nr 4 (-:
Int anybody telling him that he has is cap the wrong way???
And why the shorts over the wettie?

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.

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.

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*

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..