WAKSA Location guides

They normally have guidelines on the website for the more common spots, hopefully they will be up again soon. Lasy I heard they were also doing a few new printed location guides on top of the ones already floating around at the kite shops.

I'm sure it will be all updated soon.

WAKSA volunteers are reworking the site, so I imagine they'll be up as soon as they can.

In the meantime, you (& others) can find them here:

www.seabreeze.com.au/Articles/Kitesurfing/Riding-in-Perth-WA-What-you-need-to-know_4578814.aspx

Leethul

It's not so much "messy" as you put it, but more a case of doing the right thing by all beach users, so that kiters can maintain access to our favourite spots.

Some of the sentiment behind the guidelines cards that have been developed (distributed at retailers & online here on SB) is to assist kiters from out of town (yep, that's you buddy.... - but also for our Teuro friends) who might not know the local do's and don't's - rather than can & cannot as you suggested.

We have a rough estimate of about 2500 kiters in WA, far far in excess of the numbers in Tassie. You're pretty lucky to have minimal numbers, fewer hassles & far fewer problems to deal with. As the sport grows here, incidents and issues will become more frequent - the guidelines are an attempt, one way to hopefully minimise incidents and issues.

The guidelines are our suggestions and guidelines to minimise issues; maintain access & keep everyone on the beach happy. The guidelines are only that - guidelines - but, depending on where you kite, you will find them fairly rigidly enforced especially say @ Mullaloo - fail to comply with the guidelines at Mullaloo & it's safe to say someone will be in your ear pretty quickly.

Welcome to Perth, hope you have a great time and we hope you find the guidelines useful and contribute to you having a more enjoyable kite at any of our great beaches.

Thanks for the information.
I will certainly abide by any local guidelines and local advice.
Someone has obviously put a considerable amount of time and effort into these guidelines, and I'll do my best to follow them.
I would like to fit in, not stand out.
Thanks again.

No slackers at WAKSA pigfarmer, they do a great job as volunteers.

Wher did you end up heading out, I'm living/working down in Guilderton for a few days so might give it a crack down there, no point missing out on a session

I spoke to an instructor from a school (no names mentioned) this morning at point walter who had 2 students and was teaching in the bird sanctuary fenced off area. I explained that the local residents take pics and he was giving them ammo for the spot to get restricted even more.

Maybe due to the abundace of euro instructors is it possible WAKSA can send out a few copies to the schools for the 'backpacker instructors' to check out?

The readings seem nicer because if you look at the river at this point, it narrows between to sets of high banks/cliffs and funnels the wind through. I live just above East Freo sailing club and it is not a place where you want to kite. There are no good launching points, there is a busy boat ramp down by the Swan Yacht Club and as the river is narrower here, you are going to get mixed up with a lot of 'traffic' heading in/out under the bridges.

If you're gong to kite on the river, Melville is by far the best place. There is a designated area and you get a fairly clean wind blowing across the water. I also crew on a yacht out of South of Perth yacht club and we always head into that bay when we race up towards Point Walter as you get a good breeze in there.

You can kite off Point Walter, but it is only good when there is an Easterley blowing, which is usually an early morning breeze in the summer (think 6am on a Sunday morning!) and you can kite off the east side of the spit. It's no good for kiting in the afternoon, as the safest place to kite would be on the west side of the spit, but the wind gets turbulent due to the high cliffs I was talking about earlier. You will see the odd person trying to learn here in the afternoon sea breeze on the east (wrong!) side of the spit, and when things go wrong, they get blown across the river.