andrewm said...
Some highlights of kiting the lake
1)Standing directly downwind of a council truck collecting a number of dead animals dumped in the bushes just near the boat ramp
2)Finding masses of used needles left on the grass area and in the carpark on a regualr basis
3)Wading through filthy water and who knows what else to retrieve my 8.5m from trees after a 55kt+ gust (first and only time I have ever used my safety in anger)
4)The smell of myself and every piece of equipment after i got out of the water. Second only to the smell of anything with weed left on it in after a while in a hot car.
Had some fun kites there...but am sure I would have eventually hurt myself launching at primbee. By far the most dangerous launch I have ever seen made worse by the often 10-35kt wind range in a westerly.
Someone needs to build a nice sandbar a few 100m offshore and a walkway out there.
p.s is the wooden slider still in the water?
you forgot the junkies in the purri burri carpark...
kited there once during the week in a wild westerly, my brother was building this house on the water front across from the golf course..
sees this kite scoot by before lunch on a week day so figures it's me cause i kite and didn't have to work.
as a joke grabs an apprentice and heads upto the car park to let all the tyres down in the van, knowing that i'd know it was him and have him come and inflate them again.
he gets there and sees these shady looking dudes trying to look through the tinted black windows of the silver bullet..
by chance the apprentice is a mixed marital art freak with constantly black eyes and swollen cheek bones, he goes to task on the lake heights junkie freaks.
wind drops out on me while i was down near the van park and i have to pack up and walk all the way along the foreshore back to primbee,
and i've never kited that part of the lake again
i don't care how clean the lake gets, that area will forever be stinky mud and dead water
though those photos gez posted look mad
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