WA Kite Holiday

A great mix of conditions, you'll get plenty of wind, not uncommon for 30 knts plus up here at that time so make sure your equipped, also carry a repair kit as shops are nil out of perth, Top coastline to Kite, further north is also great but can get really hot if camping, if you can I'd increase your time, horrocks is another nice spot, 4x4 also if an option, it can get you to sweet little spots I may know

Almost guaranteed wind that time of year. Throw it up on here once you get here and we'll tell you the best way to go depending on wind.

Probably the only advise ill give, when going north is try not to get trapped in Lancelin. That place is kite paradise with a good mix of flat/waves and heaps of wind crew to have a beer with at the pub. Can be hard to make yourself leave but there are some little gems if you keep exploring a little. Down south Marg/Yalls is the same, hard to make yourself get on the road with everything you could want in one spot.

Save some time for kiting - I'm sure you realise Coronations is 5 and half hours drive north of Perth, and Margs is 3 hours south. (Don't spend your holiday in the car)

Hi guys
Rather than start a new thread I'll tack onto this one.

I'm planning a week in WA in either late Jan or Feb. I'll hire a car from Perth but want a good base to rent an airbnb apartment, where I can kite very closeby, with the option to maybe checkout some other spots nearby (<1hr) by car. Flat water or small mushy waves will do me fine.

Decent bars, restaurants & pubs nearby are a must. Craft beers on tap are highly regarded.

Any suggestions that tick all of these boxes? Lancelin or somewhere else?

Freo sounds like the ticket. Thanks! How safe it is to leave spare kites + wallet + phone etc in a car, parked at these beaches? I've heard rumours of there being meth zombies roaming around those parts. Staying a short walk away from a kite beach would be ideal if possible.

Option 2 definitely won't get the Mrs tick of approval.

How about further South? Wine country will definitely entice the Mrs, but I can't see many beach side towns on google maps.

Jan / feb ... nice. Depends. If she gets hot and troughs out you may want contingencies to head further south from Perth.

Augusta. If it troughs out we'll get strong south east wind. Even south coast , Denmark & Albany work real well on those winds

Don't discount scarborough either for AirBNB or decent accomodation.

Not to mention all the bars on the foreshore and proximity to Freo (15 minute drive)

You got the waves along the City Beach/Scarb coast and flatish water at Pinnaroo

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Phoney said..
Freo sounds like the ticket. Thanks! How safe it is to leave spare kites + wallet + phone etc in a car, parked at these beaches? I've heard rumours of there being meth zombies roaming around those parts. Staying a short walk away from a kite beach would be ideal if possible.

Option 2 definitely won't get the Mrs tick of approval.

How about further South? Wine country will definitely entice the Mrs, but I can't see many beach side towns on google maps.

budget depending, i'd update with recommending staying on the cott side of freo, or in cott itself.

A couple of spots with regular kiters (clear indication of where to launch and land etc) you can walk to, a few nice cafes, restaurants and a bar or 2 handy, and then it is a 5 min train into freo if you really want a night out (debatable).
if you stay the reverse, you'll always be driving to go kite...
and there's sheltered water and shelter from wind inside the cott groyne for your missus

would be easy for you to get yourself a 3rd or 4th slot in a down winder group from cott/swannie to trigg at that time of year too, without needing to do the drive, which visitors always enjoy. just avoid the swannie meercats at all costs
the leighton carpark stretch is a horror when the crims hit it hard, the others have their incidents, but wodies and leighton probably 2 of the worst.

agree on day trip to lanno within 1.5 hours still from there roughly - that area is what WA is more about - and enjoy!!

Hi ....
'WA surf' safety bay which is surely one of the flatish&safe 'south' spots you'll visit...i believe they do duotone..and maybe mystic
If not kite addiction does mystic somewhere in the middle of P....
Probably most do..
I'd get the watch in advance off amazon personally with a few weeks to go....but no idea about it
SA? Wasnt that cactus beach? Freaky...that really freaked me out.megamega 'nasty sharkey' i hear; no idea how the surfers on the left there handle it
Bells was nice though

Have a trip and goodluck cheerio

So have had a great holiday so far, leaving tomorrow. Been North till Port Gregory and South till Denmark doing some kiting and site seeing.
Just wanted to find out if this is the typical wind you can expect throughout the season. Seems like about 18-20knts every day?

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eppo said..
Jan / feb ... nice. Depends. If she gets hot and troughs out you may want contingencies to head further south from Perth.

I have seen in another post your quote "April and may we put our kites away". Unfortunately I arrive 25th of April. I have a 9m which works pretty well somewhere from 19kn to 28kn. However I am doubting if it's even worth to ship my equipment for my WA trip (Perth>Darwin)

Statistics tell the story. April / May least likely to see Bft4 or more wind. 3 or 4 days out of 10.

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PsychoRealm said..

eppo said..
Jan / feb ... nice. Depends. If she gets hot and troughs out you may want contingencies to head further south from Perth.

I have seen in another post your quote "April and may we put our kites away". Unfortunately I arrive 25th of April. I have a 9m which works pretty well somewhere from 19kn to 28kn. However I am doubting if it's even worth to ship my equipment for my WA trip (Perth>Darwin)

That's a bit inaccurate. Yeah, April/May are common to have days with no seabreezes and total glass-off, (perfect surfing weather), but there's always the possibility of a late start to winter, (meaning there's the odd seabreeze day here and there), or an early start to winter, where we get some frontal winds with are worth kiting too. There's always a chance of a kite in Perth, just not as reliable in April/May.... Also, depends where you go, if you're down towards Augusta, the SE could still be howling on some days making various south coast options viable. Further north there's still more reliability of wind too.

Thanks WA. I will pass Augusta beginning of may. After that I wanna make a trip up North and end up in Darwin.

Its from windguru, click on statistics for a perticular location. Also shows monthly speeds for the last 30 years, which makes for interresting reading.