Over the Easter break I headed north to check out the mythical waters of Shark Bay armed with this thread as guidance:
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Western-Australia/Shark-Bay-Windsurfing-Spots-Review/
For anyone else planning to head up there (which I highly recommend) here's my experience.....
Sail #1: Little Lagoon
About 5 minutes North of Denham Little Lagoon offers a completely enclosed and Shark Free (!!!) place to sail.
Good For: Slalom, Freestyle, Learning
Positives: Family friendly as it will always have a sheltered side for the wife and kids to sunbake/paddle, fully enclosed so if you break some something it's a very short swim/walk, very little chop
Negatives: It's inland so can be a little gusty, the very edges of the lagoon are shallow so big fins are restricted to the center of the lagoon (I had a 48cm fin in), possibility of encountering stone fish (more common near the western inlet I believe) 
Sail #2: Denham Foreshore
I launched across the road from Bay Lodge at the south end of town, I have spoken to people who have launched at the northern end of town but they also mentioned they'd knocked fins out on sandbars up there.
Good For: Slalom, Learning
Positives: Waist deep out to about 200m offshore, onshore seabreeze
Negatives: Ultra Sticky Ribbon Weed (my Makani ONO Weedy couldn't shrug it off), Really Big Fish (I came within 10m of a 3.5m Tiger Shark in waist deep water)
Sail #3: Shell Beach
45km South of Denham Shell Beach enjoys sheltered water and an off-shore seabreeze. While intimidating at first for those who aren't familiar to sailing in an off-shore you become more comfortable as you realise the bay is quite shallow and so long as you stay reasonably close to the beach you'll be able to wade home from any unfortunate breakages. At low tide you have to walk across the mudflats to get to fin-deep water which has enough chop to make slalom sailing interesting but nowhere near uncomfortable. As the tide rises you can throw in a shorter fin (I used my 24cm Delta) and cruise across the glassy water over the mudflat and right up to the beach, I sailed away from the photo below on the plane.
Good For: Speed & Freestyle(at high tide), Slalom
Positives: Flat Water, Strong Breeze
Negatives: Offshore breeze, No Phone Reception, lots of curious tourists
Select to expand quoteBFlood said...
Over the Easter break I headed north to check out the mythical waters of Shark Bay armed with this thread as guidance:
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Western-Australia/Shark-Bay-Windsurfing-Spots-Review/
For anyone else planning to head up there (which I highly recommend) here's my experience.....
Sail #1: Little Lagoon
About 5 minutes North of Denham Little Lagoon offers a completely enclosed and Shark Free (!!!) place to sail.
Good For: Slalom, Freestyle, Learning
Positives: Family friendly as it will always have a sheltered side for the wife and kids to sunbake/paddle, fully enclosed so if you break some something it's a very short swim/walk, very little chop
Negatives: It's inland so can be a little gusty, the very edges of the lagoon are shallow so big fins are restricted to the center of the lagoon (I had a 48cm fin in), possibility of encountering stone fish (more common near the western inlet I believe)
Sail #2: Denham Foreshore
I launched across the road from Bay Lodge at the south end of town, I have spoken to people who have launched at the northern end of town but they also mentioned they'd knocked fins out on sandbars up there.
Good For: Slalom, Learning
Positives: Waist deep out to about 200m offshore, onshore seabreeze
Negatives: Ultra Sticky Ribbon Weed (my Makani ONO Weedy couldn't shrug it off), Really Big Fish (I came within 10m of a 3.5m Tiger Shark in waist deep water)
Sail #3: Shell Beach
45km South of Denham Shell Beach enjoys sheltered water and an off-shore seabreeze. While intimidating at first for those who aren't familiar to sailing in an off-shore you become more comfortable as you realise the bay is quite shallow and so long as you stay reasonably close to the beach you'll be able to wade home from any unfortunate breakages. At low tide you have to walk across the mudflats to get to fin-deep water which has enough chop to make slalom sailing interesting but nowhere near uncomfortable. As the tide rises you can throw in a shorter fin (I used my 24cm Delta) and cruise across the glassy water over the mudflat and right up to the beach, I sailed away from the photo below on the plane.
Good For: Speed & Freestyle(at high tide), Slalom
Positives: Flat Water, Strong Breeze
Negatives: Offshore breeze, No Phone Reception, lots of curious tourists
I love sailing at Nanga bay infront of caravan Park. Dead onshore can sail for 7 or 8 kms to the south about 50m from beach all the way! Very blue and magical water when you turn around at the headland 
nice work Ben.
good to see our crew venturing as far away as you can get.
Nice spot up that way, have been there a few times and it was always blowing!
