How bout old mate at Botany on the weekend, he throws 4 lines out at the beach full of swimmers and hundreds of kiters. I got there early(with about only 4 other kiters) and politely said,
"hey mate, its gonna get really busy with kites here, but at the next beach down there'll be hardly any, so its probably a better spot" (didn't ask him to leave at all, just suggested walking 50m down the beach to get away from the building crowd)
he just tells me my kite is very dangerous and I need to be careful of the people haha, and leaves his 4 lines out the whole day.
hopefully noone got hooked up, but It was very possible considering that sometimes when you turn around to go back out and there's 30 kites coming towards you, people launching the other way, and 4 fishing lines downwind of you that you're not sure how far out the hook is.
I didn't want to be pushy with him because I know people might complain about kites since accidents do happen. But next time im going to try a bit harder to get him to leave.
That's the thing about public space... You get all sorts of people.
I think he has a point - your kite is very dangerous on a beach full of swimmers and perhaps less predictable than 4 fishing lines... Put yourself in his shoes.
I agree... it is courtesy... Happens over here too. Fishos starting up late arvo at one of the beaches I swim at. This is not the busy part of the beach though.
We wouldn't kite, surf, windsurf, jetski (he he) in a crowded area either...
Two weeks ago while kiting during the Kitepower Demo Day at Dolls Point I was coming in to land a little downwind from where I would have prefered due to the tide and light wind. There were kids swimming down wind so I headed for the only spot I considered safe upwind and away from them. A fisho had set up there about 30 minutes before, oblivious to the kids and kites directly in front of him. As I approached the shore slowly (maybe 10m out) he picked up his rig off the beach and flung a baited hook straight at me without looking where he was throwing. It sailed through my lines. Fortunately, he didn't snag me or bring down the kite but #### what was he thinking. After we disentangled he carried on throwing lines out within meters of the kids. The tide would have taken his line down to where they were swimming.
Beware the errant fisho!
I got caught by fisherman last week. Lucky his line stuck between my fins and board and not around my feet. That guy was using very strong line and he couldn't cut it.
Be careful near fishermen... They don't know how dangerous they can be. 
My mate Jesus told the fishos to try fishing on the other side too, he was very polite, and they caught lots of fish, so everyone was happy 
