Was at Cott on saturday, hanging in the carpark overlooking the cliffs and surf. A guy was out and couldn't relaunch his kite after it dropped. After a while he drifted in to the surf impact zone, then he released the kite. The kite got hit by a few waves, then drifted in to the flat water just in front of the rocks ashore and just stayed there cooperatively waiting for him. The kiter then swam in with his board and got up on the rocks, dumped the board and then jumped back in to retrieve the kite.

Here is where it gets interesting .... instead of deflating the leading edge and rolling up the kite (where it could have been handed in a nice neat package to his mate standing on the rocks 3 metres away), he figured it was a better idea to pull the kite to the rocks, climb up and then drag the kite up over jagged rocks where it was totally obliterated in a matter of 1 minute.

Couldn't help but get the camera out of the car (sorry buddy if you're reading this and have to relive the tale). Sorry for your loss, but it could have so easily been avoided !!! cheers