💊 Speed Week 2025 is BACK!

[.Joel]

Extreme Kites Speed Week 2025
Saturday November 1st - Tuesday November 4th

Land kiters for two+ decades have been kiting Waratah Bay, kicking off from the Sandy Point foreshore.  Now we congregate on the other side of the Inlet and explore!  Join us for some kiting fun!

Route Planned


Accommodation Options
Shallow Inlet Campground - $20/night (Unpowered Sites)
Shallow Inlet Caravan Park - $40-$126/night (Unpowered Sites, Powered Sites and Cabins)
Wilsons Prom Holiday Park - $65-$315/night (Unpowered Sites, Powered Sites and Cabins)
Sandy Point Caravan Park - $55 - $65/night (Unpowered Sites, Powered Sites) 

[nigel]

Sounds good to me!! 

 

I'll have to dust off the buggies and kites.

[DrWind]

Sounds great. Let's hope the wind gods come on board!

 

 

 

[nigel]

Weather looks great for a run tomorrow, (Saturday), on the main beach at Sandy Point.

SSW at 8 knots.

Low tide @ 2pm. So good from 12-4pm

Got the car packed, and I'll be there about 11:30am

See you there!!  

[nigel]

An awesome day!!!

 

Sunshine and a very light wind greeted our arrival to Sandy Point at 11:30am.

A short walk up the hill to check out the beach.

No white caps out the back of the breakers, so guessing it was only 5-6 knots.

But we set up the two buggies (the Libre and the GT), grabbed a few kites, and hit the beach.

 

The beach was just perfect, nice 80m wide hard packed sand.

The wind had seemed to have already turned to the South, and was ment to head more Easterly later.

So with a cross-on, and shifting to more down the beach, we didn't waste any time getting up and running.

 

Had to first sort out Mr 12. Tried a few of his kites, but they were far too small.

So, I offered my 10m Ozone Manta to him for a test, the biggest kite he has ever flown.

He had a short static fly, then jumped in the buggy.

I didn't get the kite back all day!! 

 

By the time he was up and running, the wind had picked up a knot or two, and there was the odd white cap out the back appearing.

So I threw out a 6.5m PL Vapor and off towards the point we went.

 

A little under powered, but still a nice solid run.

Mr 12 turned back not long after reaching the sand spit.

And, as usual for the spit, the wind was that knot or two stronger with no sand dunes to stop it.

The 6.5m was starting to come alive!!

To the end of the spit I went, and then back down the beach to find Mr 12.

 

Got back to our starting point to find Mr 12 having fun with a big de-power kite.

Doing little jumps, and leaving 30m skud marks down the beach.

The wind was holding it's 7-8 knots now.  

 

It was 2pm and @DrWind turned up.

So we all went for a run to the point.

Mr 12 was a little slower than us two on the up wind, but when we came back down wind from the point, he was hot our tails!!

 

Stopped for a short time out the front of Sandy Point, and decided to Follow @DrWind back down to his launching place at Waratah.

Well the wind softened on the run down. We made it there, but getting back was going to be next to impossible.

 

Now blowing sub 5 knots, and angling more down the beach, we were not going to be able to get back to our starting point.

So a big thanks to @DrWind for the lift back to the car at Sandy Point, walking the 10km back would not have been too much fun.

Drove the car to Waratah, and packed up the buggies, said good bye to @DrWind and home we went.

Stopped along the way for Fish and Chips, and got home almost perfectly for a 12 hour door to door day.

 

Just a Feaking Awesome Day!! 

 

 

[nigel]

And here is Mr 12's GPS for the day.

Fifth time in a buggy, first time using my Libre Full Race, and first time on the 10m Ozone Manta. 

 

And mine for the day.

Only 5 kph faster!!  (with a 6.5m Vapor and the GT buggy)

Mr 12 is now claiming my Libre buggy.

The cheeky bugger.

And the Manta is his to, so he says.