with out current technology, we wouldn't have kite surfing let alone a wind forecast or wind read outs. as the years go on we are going to be a race of human beings reliant on technology to help us out in many ways which we would usually do unaided.

i am only 16 seeing kids during the summer sitting on there computers all day when the sea breeze is up makes me mad! THIS IS THE CAUSE OF OBESITY!

why play video games when you can be out on the water?

technology can be a great help but it is also a curse to our up coming generations and many after it.

what where you doing when you where 16? what was your entertainment at the time?

i am just wondering because it seems no one can get get happiness from the simple pleasures in life, i makes me sad to see whats happening to this world

any way to leave on a good note SUMMERS COMING!

Nice comment Coose - I agree, the whole internet/facebook/texting thing is out of control. What happened to throwing the football around or going down to the cricket nets.

Anyway, gotta love seabreeze, but my final confirmation is the old reliable indicator tree - wherever Ive lived, Ive always got a favourite indicator tree I can see from my place which I know what it should look like when the wind is really on. Love it when the indicator tree is going off!!

But now I get to waste WHOLE days sitting on the beach waiting for the wind because the weather man with all his TECHNOLOGY was wrong with his forecast!!

saffieboy said...

But now I get to waste WHOLE days sitting on the beach waiting for the wind

I can think of a lot worse places to waste a day... .. I saw a fishing sticker that said .."a bad day fishing beats a good day working"

I Never said it was a bad thing!!

Re: WINDFREAKS, ROADTRIPS and the INTERNET.

Being plugged-in to this technology often brings about its own unique brand of anxiety.
This wind-in-the-mail mentality can breed a mood of unrealistic expection.
Frustration used to be taken in ones stride.....
in fact it was the mark of the intrepid windrat.....
the ability to deal with downtime in the desert.

Internet forecasting sites have taken on many of the aspects of online shopping,
where riders simply order up swell and wind that they want, click for immediate delivery.....
and then are disappointed when the conditions finally arrive but don't fit the model.

All the new technology in the world only makes us want to hurry around more.
Yet time remains the most precious of all commodities.
All anyone has to do to cash in on those riches is to slow down a little bit,
rearrange some priorities, and overcome your fear of the unplanned and the unknown.

Technology may have made kitesurfing more efficient in many ways....
but that doesn't mean you need to quarantine your trips to brief, micromanaged bursts.
The gift of the Information Age , after all, is knowing your options....
not your destiny.....
and those folks who plan out quick and seamless trips are missing out on the whole point of leaving home in the first place.

Raw adventure will certainly find you......
when you haven't dialed-up your experiences in advance.

poor relative said...

I love 'puters

Heres Laurie with his new ZX81 powers the whole shamoo

LOL,
I love this one, it's from a 1954 electronics mag showing what a home computer might look like in 2004 !!
The article stated that "with it's teletype interface and Fortran language it will be easy to use"
hahahahahahhahahahha !@ Most people I know can't even use DOS [}:)]

i've had many epic kite and surf sessions with nobody else out because they never bothered to stick their head out the window and look.
sometimes it just takes a quick glance at the clouds/trees or even the synoptic chart in the paper to see that the online forecast may be wrong.