Driving north to Atherton today for another couple of weeks work, I was a bit miffed to leave the forecast behind. Who would have predicted a cracking SE in September.
But suddenly, Snuffy had a brain-wave. I'd brought all my gear, and Bowen was on the horizon.
I called Greeny, who kindly told me all he knew about where to go, and I found my way to King's Beach.
Had a great B&J sail on a 5.8 and my 92L JP quad. It makes a superb B&J board and I was nicely powered in 18-22 kts. It filled in as the afternoon wore on too, which is a nice feature of warmer climes. Clean water, nice swelly conditions with lots of chop-hopping.
I finally worked out a few wrinkles in my off-shore gybes too, which pleased me greatly.
Didn't even get eaten by a croc or a jellyfish. There was a cute little green turtle that kept popping his head up as if to say "who's that sailing on my reef ?"
No-one else around though, lonely deserted dirt road and beach. Reminded me a lot of Sprecks.
Maybe the locals were elsewhere, or maybe there aren't any.
Front beach, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday. 5.8 on thursday and 5.2 every other day.
me and the missus up from the gold coast travelling around trying to get experience windsurfing, got some great experience off king beach bowen today.
Staying at horseshoe bay, hoping to get my kite out tomorrow as well.
see how its goes.
cheers
