Sorry mate. Chances are it won't be around next year

Keep the duck pond to yourself - we had south beach at 30+kts this arvo/evening

4 kites out ?
Beautiful shot ..... but is that it ???

Ive been to many a kite stock so this is a educated comment.

Great photo, taken at the freestyle or big air event? 30knots big air was nuts. Think everyone that did the down winder was fked and called it a day after that.

Photo from Friday.


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C'mon mate, do you really think its acceptable for your council to hold a beach based event (which brings in the all important tourist dollar) and have that much weed built up? I understand how weed builds up (i nearly lost a bar and lines to it last week) but do you honestly think it looks like an inviting beach? Sure its a pain in the arse clearing it but it gives a few blokes a few hours overtime each morning of the event and shows your beach in its best light.

I fished Trigg reef almost every day for 2 years and every morning during summer the tractor graded Trigg and Scarborough beach in the dark... i bet the same happens at Bondi, cott etc and we all know why.

MDSXR6T said..
C'mon mate, do you really think its acceptable for your council to hold a beach based event (which brings in the all important tourist dollar) and have that much weed built up? I understand how weed builds up (i nearly lost a bar and lines to it last week) but do you honestly think it looks like an inviting beach? Sure its a pain in the arse clearing it but it gives a few blokes a few hours overtime each morning of the event and shows your beach in its best light.

I fished Trigg reef almost every day for 2 years and every morning during summer the tractor graded Trigg and Scarborough beach in the dark... i bet the same happens at Bondi, cott etc and we all know why.

That's because they have to clean up all the needles , before someone sues the council for getting HIV desease.

not o problem when you live in Dongara.

MDSXR6T said...
C'mon mate, do you really think its acceptable for your council to hold a beach based event (which brings in the all important tourist dollar) and have that much weed built up? I understand how weed builds up (i nearly lost a bar and lines to it last week) but do you honestly think it looks like an inviting beach? Sure its a pain in the arse clearing it but it gives a few blokes a few hours overtime each morning of the event and shows your beach in its best light.

I fished Trigg reef almost every day for 2 years and every morning during summer the tractor graded Trigg and Scarborough beach in the dark... i bet the same happens at Bondi, cott etc and we all know why.

A complaint was made last year about the removal of seaweed from an environmental side of things, seaweed has an important role to play in the health of our oceans( especially fish populations) , maybe that's why I released. 6 of these suckers after my last trip out

Nice Dhuie

What role does it have building up on the beach and will removing it for 1 week affect the marine environment. Or was it a local who doesn't want their town ruined. Serious questions.

My way of looking at is simple. You have a world class kiting destination with a clean ocean (as can be seen in pics), new facilities and grass for kiters, their families and tourists to enjoy. Between that is a significant amount of weed built up.

I may be miserable **** or a dickhead but you add a clean beach (it doesn't have to resemble whitehaven of course) and for that bit of extra effort you have an internationally appealing kite event.

Never kited but i've stayed in Dongara before.

Yeh the southern end looks great but if you're putting on a big event, why not make the whole beach stand out so punters who are paying go wow. It's hardly a new concept

The other 362 days of the year it can go back to normal.

Mate clearing the weed in front of the clubhouse wouldn't have mattered as none of the spectators would have sat/stood down past the dunes/end of the grassed area as the sand on the beach was blinding, everyone was watching from the grassed area/car park or further down south on the beach parked in cars. In front of the club was for comps anyways & everyone launched a little further down the beach where no weed was. Trust me - all the punters watching were going wow - especially during the Freestyle & Big Air comps

DJMWA is spot on - and cauncy's pic speaks for itself
it would have been NACC that put a bit of a focus on retaining seagrass wrack on beaches a couple of years back

if you are genuinely curious MDSXR6T, here is one of their fact sheets:
http://www.nacc.com.au/sites/nacc.com.au/files/1090/pdf/Beach_wrack_information_sheet.pdf


i get your point MDSXR6T, but part of the campaign by NACC is to get people to start to embrace it as a natural part of the cycle of life of the ecosystem in those parts (and others), and not let minor inconveniences be a cause for altering it. i agree with them.

That photo is of the big air comp at the end of the day. Everyone had packed up and gone to the club to watch / parked their car on the beach to watch or gone home to get ready for the party.... where some sweet Axis kite boards were given away during a giant game of heads and tails and a treasure hunt!

Whilst closing up the the surf life saving club i thought it would be a good idea to do a quick litter sweep of the beach, the beach was deserted, i drove about 3k up the beach. I was amazed, all I could find is one empty 500ml water bottle........ kite surfers rock!

(Yawn) it's a great event, just stay focussed on what the event is about. Relationship.
The seaweed has one with the beach.

Why is there so much weed on the beach? Surely someone could clean it up.

I feel sorry for you guys with all your stinky weed on the beaches.