Sometimes Kiting isn't about Tricks, it's about Adventure!
When you add a light aircraft to the mix, that adventure gets a whole lot more exciting. Especially when there’s dingoes involved. So to satisfy Andy’s hankering for adventure, Ozone took him to Fraser Island for a solo session.
Up on the QLD coast, Fraser is a sand island that’s pretty inhospitable. With a good 4x4 you can get to most places here, but it takes a long time. Experts say you’d be driving for a few days to get to this place (it’s somewhat of a secret spot). But with the plane, 50 minutes from Caloundra and Andy touched down in a spray of sand, taxied to the end of the runway and pumped up.
Guaranteed of being the only kiter on the water, Andy got to enjoy the blue water, white sand and wind in his hair. All that was missing was the sharks, which Fraser is notorious for apparently. Not a toe was nibbled, not a kite was crashed and many a trick was landed. Sure, the performance wouldn’t win him the PKRA, but you can guarantee that any rider on the tour would give anything to trade places for the day!
Andy was super stoked about getting the chance to kite here, saying:
“Nothing beats a session at my local spot, Caloundra Rivermouth, with my friends. However, I do find myself daydreaming from time to time, imagining kiting a place that perhaps has never been kited before, or even seen for that matter! Most places around the world have in one way or another been kited, whether that be on the water, snow or land. It's so rare to find somewhere new, that no one else has kited. Indeed, the place that I was fortunate to kite, hadn't even been visited by most Australians - it is the remote coastline of Fraser Island!! No footprints, no buildings, no anything pretty much apart from natural coastline and the occasional inquisitive Dingo.”
Check out the video, shot by Glen Bowden, it’s extremely well put together and just makes you want to get out and explore!!
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