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Westerlies on the charts for at least the next four days. Surfing will be a better option:

BOM FORECAST:

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Thursday until midnight: Wind: W/NW 13/18 knots.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres.Swell: NE 2 to 2.5 metres.
Friday: Wind: W/SW 10/15 knots tending N/NE during the afternoon and increasing to 15/20 knots in the evening before tending NW later.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres in the evening. Swell: E/NE 2 to 2.5 metres.
Saturday Outlook: Wind: W/NW 20/30 knots ahead of a W/SW change 20/30 knots during the day.
Sunday Outlook: Wind: S/SW 25/35 knots, reaching 40 knots offshore at times.

ANOTHER LOST BOARD: (FOUND! 0800 WED)

(Wednesday Update 0830: After my experience last week, on my advice, Chris drove to Manly first thing this morning to look for his board.  He popped in the S Steyne surf club and asked if anyone had seen the board and was told "Yeah, someone found it last night and the police were out with boats and helicopters  searching for you last night. You should go and see them and tell them you're OK." So he pops into the Manly police station and Voila! there's his board. Another happy ending.

LESSONS FROM THIS:

1. If you lose your board at Long Reef, it will probably end up at Manly

2. ALWAYS put your name and phone number on your board!

CHRIS WAS KITING AT BUTTERBOX ON TUESDAY AND HAD SAME THING HAPPEN TO HIM AS MY EPISODE LAST WEEK (SCROLL DOWN) IF YOU SEE THIS BOARD ANYWHERE BETWEEN LONG REEF AND MANLY, CONTACT US ON THE LINK ABOVE PLEASE.  IF HISTORY IS ANY INDICATOR, IT'LL END UP ON MANLY BEACH TOMORROW MORNING...

Current wind readings:

Latest forecast:

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A bit grey but Sunday was a fantastic day of sizzling sausages and sensational kiting at Narrabeen.

ROB'S PICASA GALLERY FROM SUNDAY NARRA SESSION
CLICK HERE

Grant's photos from Fishermans last week

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grant_sager/sets/72157609110570204/show/

Onni's latest photo gallery from Fishermans sessions:

NEW photos by Onni's bro Tai from Friday:

http://onni.smugmug.com/gallery/6551161_XGYBH

THURSDAY
http://onni.smugmug.com/gallery/6539891_nravZ
(credit: Photos by Tai) 99images

FRIDAY

http://onni.smugmug.com/gallery/6546581_mtyGN  
(credit: Photos by Onni) 194images

MORE WHALE SHOTS!

By now, everyone has probably seen the photos of David Sheridan and the whale at Nambucca. (scroll down)

But for some even cooler whale/kite action, check out this from Stephane, the guy who invented CamRig.

http://www.camrig.com/videos.php?clip=whales2

CHICKS WEEKEND VIDEO:

Gregg has just finished a vid he made of the NSWKBA Chicks Weekend.

Cheers,

Rob

THURSDAY REPORT:

Arthur and I did a downwinder from Narrabeen to Dee Why by way of an hour stopoff at ButterBox. Started off pretty dodgy with kites falling out of the sky everywhere at Narrabeen, but once you got out of the 5knot current along the shore and behind the break, it picked up nice and steady.

Butterbox was great fun. Onni dropped in for a bit and Chris popped over for one run then headed back to Fishermans. Another guy I didn't recognise on a Naish was there for a while too.

After about an hour my kite went down inside the dead-zone at Butterbox when a wind lull came for moment and wasn't able to relaunch it for about 15 min. By the time I got it flying again my board was long gone. Body dragged about 500m to Longy then walked up top of the hill and spotted it about 150m offshore. Swam out to get it but by the time I got out there couldn't find it anywhere.

Walked back to Dee Why to get car and drive Arthur back to his car at Narra then came back and walked to Longy from DY on dark with no luck.

Got up at 0515 this morning and walked again to Long Reef, still no luck. Having a coffee at 0720 and got a call from Petra in Manly, (who is BTW, along with her partner Scott is also a kiteboarder!) Petra had found the board on the beach at Manly when she was going out for a surf first thing this morning. Amazing. So inspiring to encounter such fantastic people in the world when so often we hear only about the bad things that people do in mainstream media.

Petra, you're a legend! THANKS A MILLION! World needs more people like you!

MORE BUTTERBOX PHOTOS ON PICASA GALLERY

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HAD TO HAPPEN EVENTUALLY:
WHALE CAPTURED ON KITECAM PHOTOGRAPH

DAILY TELEGRAPH STORY HERE

Selena and Jennie's KiteChicks 2 weekend gallery: 
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Great day at Longy Tuesday. Onni got some nice shots, as usual:

GALLERY SLIDESHOW CLICK HERE

Chris, in fine form

KITECHICKS2

at 7 Mile beach  this past weekend was a screaming success.

CLICK HERE FOR ROB'S PHOTO GALLERY

CLICK HERE FOR KAT'S PHOTO GALLERY

IRINA GETS AIR TIME!

SMILES DON'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!

IRINA, VERY PLEASED WITH DAY1

Stephanie, off and away!

Mel, body dragging at Mach1

Evey heading for NZ, despite incoming tsunami...

Weekend forecast was rather pesimistic from the BOM on Thursday and Friday, but we saw the rain back off by midday on Saturday and a light sou'easter kick in by early afternoon and everyone had a go on the kites. Never seen so many smiles in one place...

Saturday evening it was off the the pub for a bit of tucker and then, depending on how much sleep you'd had the night before either off to the sack or party on at the pub.

Lot's of dreary eyes turned up at the beach about lunchtime but by early afternoon, almost everyone had a chance to get in the water on a kite for at least a body drag with many of the intermediate group getting up on the boards for the first time. Some bravery awards deserved  and if we'd had any medalswe'd have been giving out quite a few.

Everyone I saw did spectacularly well and the learning curve was immense with great leaps forward in skills. Everyone who came down seems to have the knack to actually pick it up and get going. All it'll take is more time on the water and some persistence.

After about 4pm on Day 2 the wind got too strong to teach so Chris, Arthur, George, Morgan and I hopped on the kites and did a downwinder to the Shoalhaven Surf Club. about 8km down the beach.  Kat and Selena drove down to pick us up and drive us back and got some great photos of some whales jumping out the back just before we arrived.

Great job girls!

Kat has taken quite a few more shots that we'll post later today or tomorrow.

Cheers,

Rob

Onni got out and amongst it toward dark last Thursday with his camera.

GALLERY HERE

Chris looking very pleased with his new Hawaiian surfboard and new Griffin 10.5 2009 kite.

LAST WEEK AT NARRA, PHOTOS BY ONNI

Mark got some cool shots at Longy last week

GALLERY HERE

Me, hiding amonsgt the spray

ME AT NARRABEEN LAST MONDAY

HAWKS NEST OCTOBER

LONG WEEKEND

Got some great conditions at Hawks Nest.

Here's the full gallery

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Check out the dingo on the left (didn't see him at the time and only noticed when I looked at the photos!)

And the sea turtle in the upper centre...

Nice waves too...

Logistical support by Katski...

Just kilometres and kilometres of beach, and nobody around...

Kitecam video Lakes Beach near Newcastle:

Some kitecam shots from a couple weeks ago:

SATURDAY REPORT

Narra. Video by Jan

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Onni and Nana shot some nice ones last Monday and I got some interesting kitecam shots. All below.

Onni's full gallery HERE:

Gregory by Onni

Peter by Onni

Jan, photo by Nana

Christophe, photo by Nana (Happy Birthday Christophe!)

Rob, photo by Rob

Vortex spinouts

FULL KITECAM GALLERY

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More kitecam:

CHRIS KITECAM
CLICK HERE

ROB'S OTHER KITECAM
CLICK HERE

Couple of photos of Lorenzo and me surfing at Collaroy last Sunday. Photos by Livvie!

Vortex--there were a few pretty gnarly ones out there at Long Reef last week.

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