Sunday 28th September buggy run at Venus bay, Vic

[nigel]

School holidays are upon us, and that means I have the weekends free!

So what better way to spend a Sunday morning than a cruise along a nice beach.

Sandy Point is unavailable, due to a dead whale🐋. But Venus Bay is looking a better option with the current wind forecast.

Low tide at 10am, so an early start.

Winds are almost perfect onshore, about 10 knots.

I will have my my super buggy buddy (Mr 11), who is eager for another session of smooth winds and a smooth beach.

Any takers??

[nigel]

Should have written this up earlier, but here we go.

 

Arrived around 9am, and set the buggies up.

A nice 10 knots blowing, and we had some fun.

 

That was for the first hour.....

Till Mr 12 made the mistake of parking the buggy on the very wet sand.

Why is the sand wet? well the waves tend to wet it.

So while Mr 12's kite was falling out of the air, the little PL was getting a little damp.

The second wave tried to claim the buggy, and proceeded to pull it out to sea.

Mr 12 then realised why I was waving my hands, and pointing at the buggy.

So he rescued the PL and got some damp feet.

 

Just to add to the pain, the wind decided that it too wanted to not be a sport, and dropped to sub 5 knots.

3km from the car, with a wet footed Mr 12, and a I pulled out the next size up kite.

But it was no use.

The 6.5m Vapor did not have it in it, to drag two attached buggies back to the car.

So the walk of shame commenced.

 

Got back to the car and packed up.

Left the carpark at midday, and took a lazy drive home (2 hours).

Stopped several times at places we normally drive through, so not a wasted day overall.