I tried to kite hamlin bay on an easterly the day of the Anaconda in Augusta.....it looked so perfect about 20knts SE
Put kite up little bit gusty.....thought I can ride cross wind at worst and pull up on beach towards boranup way a bit...

I was totally wrong

wind was so holey my 10m kite was dropping straight out of sky then powering up off the chain not allowing me to depower enough to get an edge on the water...
Yep straight off shore no good.. I was about 30 secs away from letting the kite go.. got a really lucky break in the wind headed for the coats til I could touch sand, released the safety swam in and was stocked I still had a kite.