Looks like we are still being left out of the loop...
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/6819945/kitesurfers-banned-to-make-way-for-dogs/
Did you like the bit about "the owners of 21,000 registered dogs were calling for a bigger dog beach". I would bet the local MP walks their dog there and the other 20,999 are left shut in the back yards 24/7 like they are everywhere else!
On another point, there was no mention of windsurfers? Not that we sail there but other councils may follow their lead. Do you think it is as it reads?
Hopefully windsurfing is left off. It seems to be a bit more in the sailing category, and less in the hoon category. I think because of windsurfing''s hertiage, you may find some of the older generation councillors have done it, or friends who done it .....
Whenever I have spoken to surf clubbies, or the patrol captains, windsurfing has generally be accepted. The conversation often goes, along the lines of, his dad does it, or the patrol captains mates do it, or the club president does it, or something.
Hopefully, with its much longer history, it has gained some level of respect, and won't face any bans. I guess it all depends on whether in the future we act like tools around swimmers or clubbies.
Have a look at the Beach management Plan from Joondalup:
www.joondalup.wa.gov.au//files/councilmeetings/2010/Attach24agn160210.pdf
Page 33, point 2.1 they classify recreational beach and water activities.
Windsurfing is classified as "Medium conflicting" where as Kitesurfing is "Highly conflicting". They recommend that highly conflicting uses should be subject to exclusion zones.
Interesting read and from our point of view encouraging that councils are differentiating between windsurfing and kitesurfing.
I had to laugh when I saw it was kiting and no mention of windsurfing.
Interesting, they've had 10yrs for the good ones to give the many cowboys a rev up about their behaviour and still they can't sort out their own.
I still see them turning 2ft from the sand with lines just overhead from people on the beach and yahooing near swimmers. EVERY time I sail.
Serves them right.
Strong words I know, but as I said it is every time I sail I see some behaving irresponsibly.
Glad they're discerning, and I hope it lasts and that they close more on that basis alone.
It's a matter of time before the "look at me" hooligans create wider damage though. They just cannot sort out their own, that's the kind of people it attracts, somehow.
In my (wider) area 3 long-time beaches got closed altogether for windsurfing, including one in my own backyard.
This leads me to wonder...has kitesurfing become the new bogan sport and taken from where jet skiing left off?? Apart from the "look at moi" attitude to both sports and the relative that it takes to become reasonable at both activities, whenever I am down the beach, there are a lot of kiters in bogan utes. Or is all just a direct cross-over and additional link to a poor mans wake-boarding when a boat is too expensive.
Dont label the people as a certain demographic, they are who they are and have to accept the consequences of their actions.
Serves them selves right.......... Now who's goanna police it???????
shame to see the horses go, can't see why , much less of a threat than jetskis, kites and windsurfers....+ they only come out on easterlies in the morning.
i hope they give the go ahead for the extended dog beachs 
, pinaroo dog beach is a joke, everyone packed in like sardines, with empty beaches as far as the eye can see either side of the stop posts....
as for the kite zones, ,, these are the only two areas where most kiters normally go from anyways... so no change there.....hope windsurfers can still use the area as well,,,pinaroo point is not bad.........on a 5m swell with a 30+ westerly 
had some good seshs at mullaz too.
bloody hell i miss the place 
