Well after going to the state champs at St Kilda yesterday to have a look i have to say that i tend to agree with everyone about it being "the place" to learn and continue learning to the point where your skills are up to the stage where you can handle a more advanced place to kite.

Enormous amounts of sandy area to launch and land and the water goes deeper very fast, no sand bars to trip you up and send you flat into the sand. No tress, no roads, no power lines

My wife was really impressed with the place and grabbed all the brochures about kiting she could find.

Realistically there are a few drawbacks to the place but they don't really involve the safety side of it.

First one is the parking. You would not want to be there for a few hours, you would need a bank loan to pay for the parking meters.
Whilst sitting in the cafe next to THEZU ( someone was something when they thought up that name) you soon realise that's expensive too, but the food was great quality.
Plus you can see that it would be like the safeway carpark on shopping day it would get so busy.

But other than those small gripes, you can see how it is a great place to be learning.