def on the must do place! Was hoping to get over this year but am headed elsewhere for work...year after for sure. Ticks all the boxes when it comes to small island paradises!

Mr Float, the waves are kiteable the length of the lagoon, some areas are tide dependant. There are about 4 well used locations by surfers but a kite opens up a lot more area. It has been posted before but the following link will give you a better idea on video.

Hi Mr Float, you are really showing your age. Flying boats stopped coming to Lord Howe in 1974! Don't feel bad I have just turned 50. I started coming to lord Howe in 1974 & was 11.

June to September is definately our windiest time you year 15 to 40 knots in the SW quarter. Swell the same S to SW. This opens up the entire lagoon to Kite surfing and the reef breaks. I have down loaded some wind statistics for June, July & August. These docs break down in percenatges, the direction & strength by month. Hope this helps!

There is a 14kg per bag outward limit from Sydney and Brisbane, and you are allowed a carry on up 7kg, and you can book an extra 14kg bag online. The Extra 14kg bag may not travel on the same flight as you, but could arrive the next day and would be delivered to your accommodation on Lord Howe. Return flights are not an issue because all the Qantas staff at Lord Howe are local residents and they let that sort of thing slip, they do not want to hassle their tourists.

The way I got around the issue was to use one of those bags that splits in two, that way I had 28kg of booked in luggage, which was 4 kites, my board and wet gear as well as bit of camera gear (tripod, filters, etc), which I carried to the airport clipped together as one bag, when I got to the check in counter I split it into two. My carry on was 15kg mostly camera gear but in an airline approved carry on backpack. They did not weight my carry on. The check in person warned me that my extra bag might not come on the same flight, but it did. The only time extra bags will not come on the same flight is if the flight is completely full, and at this time of the year the flights are not very often full.

Book the extra 14kg bag online the price at the airport is double, I'm fairly sure it was only $20 online.
If you need any other help ask me, you probably will not need big kites as the winds in winter tend to be 20-30 knots. If you want to ship stuff prior, send it in a 5kg express post bag, which is shipped by air and get there quite quickly usually within 24-48 hrs from Brisbane, can take an extra day from Sydney for some reason. We can help with the Express Post bags we have them for our shipping and will sell them to you at cost, a single kite will go in one easily (not with its outer bag though).
Send gear to Dave Gardiner c/o Fish Lord Howe, contact me for the address.

Ripper here we go again!

Wow Davo, that sounds/looks mad especially compared to the endless 3-10 kt days here around the Tweed.
Post more fotos m8!
Whats your chance of hitting the waves an maybe taking some snaps?
Cheers