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Beaches for Westerly's

Created by jdhot jdhot  > 9 months ago, 29 Mar 2008
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jdhot
jdhot

NSW

44 posts

29 Mar 2008 11:49pm
Hi guys,

Thursday at this stage is predicting nice strong westerly winds avg 20-25knt, can anybody recommend any beachs between Sydney and 7 mile that are good for these winds as the tides are nice and low from say 10am-4:30pm rough.
Open to any suggestion

Thanks
JD
Kitepower Australia
30 Mar 2008 9:47am
Hey John

No there aren't any, winter and westerlies is inland buggying. Inside the dunes at Stockton can be doable on a bigfoot, but its still not much fun.
All the beaches on the East Coast tend to be unsuitable to westerly wind. Parks and inland dry lakes are best.
We need to organise some trips out west over winter.

Cya and

goodwinds

Steve
Velocity
Velocity

WA

185 posts

30 Mar 2008 7:16am
I have had many an epic session at Stockton Beach in a westerly.

It works really well up there, when the tide is out plenty of room to run up and down without getting your kite wet.

Stockton at low tide works in all directions for a play on the sand best directions though are SW-SE even a W-NW you can run up and down the beach also!

for the non believers :))))

here is a short video of a W-NW at stockton beach



Cheers
Luke
jdhot
jdhot

NSW

44 posts

30 Mar 2008 12:34pm
Thanks guys for the advice
Once again another impressive vid Luke
We'll all catch up one day

Cheers
jd
Velocity
Velocity

WA

185 posts

30 Mar 2008 1:03pm
Cheers JD,

vid not that impressive by todays standards that we set yet as you can see it works just fine in an offshore breeze.

Must catch up for a fly asap amigo!

Cheers
Luke
Kitepower Australia
1 Apr 2008 3:41pm
Luke after watching that video, I'm a beleiver too!
How far could you run up and down the beach if you are not into freestyle and jumping, just cruising?
Is the wind very bumpy? Must be a bit?

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve
Velocity
Velocity

WA

185 posts

2 Apr 2008 8:03am
Steve,

Fortunately for the Demo Day next month we may very well have those kinds of winds.

Yes you can run up and down the beach its like buggying in a SE wind yet the kite on the water side.

Yes it gets a bit lumpy but not as bad as flying in Sydney during winter.

Cheers
Luke
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