ALERT !!! FYI

Residents along the Georges River are being advised to avoid all contact with the river for at least another three days as crews continue to clean up after a major spill of sewage last weekend.
NSW Health extended an alert in place since the weekend for people and their pets to avoid the river from Macquarie Fields all the way downstream to Botany Bay. Swimming, sailing, canoeing and fishing are also to be avoided.


Read more: www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/georges-river-health-alert-extended-until-the-weekend-20131127-2y8x9.html

anwargoku said..

ALERT !!! FYI

Residents along the Georges River are being advised to avoid all contact with the river for at least another three days as crews continue to clean up after a major spill of sewage last weekend.
NSW Health extended an alert in place since the weekend for people and their pets to avoid the river from Macquarie Fields all the way downstream to Botany Bay. Swimming, sailing, canoeing and fishing are also to be avoided.


Read more: www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/georges-river-health-alert-extended-until-the-weekend-20131127-2y8x9.html

Don't think you need to worry too much about this. They found "slight reading" of contamination at Chipping Norton which is still along the very narrow stretch of river and there is more than 4 times the length of river to Botany, not to mention the river opens up massively well before Botany. The levels of contamination wouldn't be anything over what the crappy sydney water is on a regular basis anyway.

Just my thoughts

Who is kitting this afternoon!?
And is dolls point a good spot for southern wind?

Warehouse - say hi to Alessandro for me. He taught me everything I know which is very close to nothing. You can kite these days to 7.30pm at least so hopefully you will have a long productive session on Monday.

Anwar, I'm running a tight ship today - work vs getting home to relieve babysitter. If the wind goes more east by early arvo (say 3pm) I will try to make it down. If it keeps the westerly in it I will give it a miss.

I got down there yesterday late afternoon. Very good wind (and clearly much better weather than today) although by the end was getting too strong for me on my 9m. Also there were probably about 30 kiters down there so a bit busy close to shore but fine once you got out a bit. I do think stronger winds are easier for beginners as you don't have to fly the kite as much.

Will give u a PM or text if I'm going to head down. Should know by 2-ish.

cheers

Tootharoo said..

Warehouse - say hi to Alessandro for me. He taught me everything I know which is very close to nothing.

I hope that isn't a reflection of how good an instructor he is :-/ . My last lesson was with Sean who I thought was really good, got a lot out of the lesson with him.

Spoke with Alessandro just before and we have moved my lesson to 5pm-7pm due to winds (or lack there of). Looking like better winds in the arvo to get a good lesson in, so decided better off moving it.

Awesome mate

Not sure they have a monopoly so much as they are just the best around
There are a few others I know of, but none that get the reviews and as much overly positive feedback as KP do.

Yeah we've already changed from midday Monday to 5pm due to forecast lack of wind, but I reckon that might change again this morning. Hopefully can change it to Wednesday as it is looking a lot more promising.

Self rescue is one thing I really want to cover as my goal is to be self sufficient before heading to Yamba for first 2 weeks of Jan. I don't expect to be up and riding perfectly, but as long as I have the basics to work on and can get my self out of trouble when I ditch the kite etc then I will be happy. 2 weeks of nothing more then R&R and arvo kite sessions should certainly help my learning curve

As a side note, does anyone have any idea where seabreeze get their weather data from. It conflicts with both BOM and Elders, they both forecast much better (still not great, but better) winds this arvo compared to SB.

Elders reckon 29kmh at 3pm (approx 15-16knts)
www.eldersweather.com.au/local-forecast/nsw/sydney

BOM reckons arvo tending NE 20-30kmh (11-17knts)
www.bom.gov.au/nsw/forecasts/sydney.shtml

Yet seabreeze is saying no more than 5-10knts and thats only 10knts at 11pm

This is why I hate not leaving near the coast.

Yeah mate lesson is a go ahead from 5-7 but I will be heading to KP soon to pick up my new gear, should be there around 4ish depending on traffic.

I'll look put for you mate but I reckon you'll spot the uber noob with the shiny new gear floundering around before i spot you haha.

We caught up at the end of the session. Warehouse got up on his board, congrats mate, fantastic progress! I was just body dragging, and kept ending up downwind. Obviously it was the tidal currents at Doll's point and not my lack of skill at all....

nice effort waterhouse! you must be pumped.

Im possibly heading out tonight if the wind picks up, anyone else going? Thinking 1st or second carpark

The exciting bit was as I was body dragging downwind of Warehouse while his kite was in the water. I was cutting it too close and all of a sudden the wind picked his kite up and threatened to tangle us. I had to quickly yank my kite right across the wind window to avoid calamity, and then back again. Needless to say it gave me an exciting burst of speed!

Warehouse - back in the day (i.e. 20 years ago) I wakeboarded. I was crap at it but it probably has helped because the boards are so similar to kiteboards. Having said that, like you point out, the pull is all different so I suspect it would be a waste of time to do wakeboarding because you'd spend all your time learning to get up differently and so you'd just have even more things to think about. In fact Alessandro said to me at my lesson "forget everything you did while wakeboarding".You have got me thinking though that the boots which are much more common on wakeboards would help me on kiteboards - maybe next season.

Anwar, I will probably head out tomorrow afternoon driving from work in the CBD. Unfortunately I'm on a tight schedule tomorrow so stopping by central won't work for me but could give u a lift from the CBD. Will look to leave CBD probably 3.30-4ish subject to the normal caveats (wind, work, etc) so PM me if you want a lift.

This arvo looks good but can't do it. Enjoy manlykiter.

Ive been to the panthers wakeboarding park, though not with the intention of gaining kitesurfing skills from it.

It would give you a feel for edging, and may help if you are learning technical tricks but I cant see it being of a great use as a beginner imo.

Theres a tasty 20 knots out there at the mo, finish work in 25 min! yeee ha

Mate, looking like I'll be there from around 3-4pm.

I'm looking at possibly heading to Hollywoods to start, depending on how busy and winds etc, might head to 1st carpark.

Look out for the guy with the black and white 11m Crazyfly floundering around trying to stand up haha

If wind reasonable we (Anwar and I) should be there around 4. Will look for you guys. Warehouse - you and me must be the only guys with crazyflight kites. I'm hoping we're early adopters of a brand that is going to take off as opposed to the only two guys crazy enough to buy their stuff.