Hows the depth of lake illawarra looking?

Anyone gonna be out this week?

Yep, Heading up thursday for my firstly westerly session of the year I assume it's still shallow....leave your pointer at home and pack your weedy.

jason,
what street/suburb do you launch from. It's certainly looking windier than Sydney for Thu & Fri,
I can't make it for this time but hope to head down when the 30K monsters hit.

Bundah place off Lake view drive...googled it

Stuck in Melbourne with work but crossing my fingers that the first big westerly of the season comes in for you all. Lake depth and weed has been really good in the last couple of months, as Jason has suggested.

Somewhat related - has anybody else found the 'bog hole' that sits about 30m North-West of the Primbee launch spot? If you walk perpendicularly out from the shore you entirely miss it and only hit firmish sand and light weed. But if you walk diagonally out to your right (towards Port Kembla Sailing Club), you hit this spot with about 30cm of water but 1m of black quicksand like mud underneath. It can't bear your weight and I've had the entirely humerous situation of having to swim downwind to catch my floating rig in seemingly less than half a meter of water. Took me about a minute to catch it!! I'm sure it looked hilarious to anyone watching!! Disturbing the meter of silt like mud also releases the most horrible stench!!

Have fun lads!!

Some pics from today....

All this on a school day!

Some people have it hard.

Sweet photo's!

I was afternoon shift muz.....

great pics jason agreat day sailing

Awesome pics!

Ahhh the Gong, makes me home sick....

How is the freestyle scene there? Looks like quite a bit of wind and some flat water conditions - perfect!

Great photos! Just bought myself a delta fin so I can join you next time wind and work allow

How are you taking these pics? On your board? What cam?

Great shots! Boy you get good wind down there..

Only made day 2 of the season opener. I resisted the after-sail refreshments on offer and got out for a bit.

A spur of the moment award was made for Alpha Racing last season. A magnificent perpetual trophy, unknowingly donated by Knightmare windsurfing constructions. John Demol won it last season with an alpha of 24.68 knots. The IYC does not officially condone racing about the shallows, so it is open to all comers at Lake Illawarra. You just have to post on GPSTC and gate crash the presentation night at the yacht club next May to collect it.

The early season leader is Michael Thomson with an Alpha of 23.934 knots yesterday. Well done Michael.

K Dog said..

How are you taking these pics? On your board? What cam?

All photos were taken from the bank with my Canon 60D with a 400 zoom lens, Gets me quite close to the action. You could walk out and get closer as most of where they are sailing would be lucky to be thigh deep.

Thanks everybody for the kind words, I've got a lot more from the day and as soon as I finish the edit I'll get them up on my flickr account for anyone that's interested in downloading hi-res copies for themselves. If you want some happy snaps just sing out when you see I've got the camera out and I'll do my best to capture you in all your glory.

Cheers