Northern Territory

Please help on any of the following ....

Who
What
When
Where
How
Wind patterns
Crocks
Parks
Beaches
Rangers
Wet season


Cheers

No idea Marty, but I would stay on the land, plenty of handbags up there.

Maybe consider taking up fishing instead?..........leave your buggy in Qld where we can all enjoy it

I remember reading something, not sure if it was on here about Rangers or similar taking a dim view of kiting in and around Darwin. Was an old post though, I think I picked it up when doing a search for something else.

Good luck

Marty,

I have lived and kited up there...the winds are usually off shore in the dry, and buggying is not allowed on the main beaches because the Rangers have a problem with the issue of public liability...However there is a park over the Rapid Creek bridge that is OK to kite in off shore conditions...although a little gusty...but close to town..and a little bumpy..

Most the kiters up there are easy to get along with. Don't worry about the crocs, there to busy eating sharks to worry aboyt chewin up people....If you want you can purchase Croc Attack insurance, however it is more probable that you you will win lotto than get attacked by a croc.....However the lotto doesn't lurk in the waters at the beach..

When swimming in the NT I always drink heaps of beer to help ease the pain if you get stung by a box jelly fish or attacked by a tiger shark or croc...a

Anything you want to know ...give me a ring...When are you headin up?

Barrie

Cheers Barry ....

Not sure when ... depends on how much I shocked em with the $$ I want.

I should have made it clearer but I am only really considering kiting on the land,though the summer heat may change that.
Being used to 1 1/2 hour drives to get to the beach should open up a few options out of town I would imagine.
The tides (I hear) are really big right ?

Big tides...wide beaches...out Gun Point way is the go on a westerly ( I think ).....long beaches and no one on them...good for chuckin long mono's on the bikes..and buggy runs...

Barrie

WOW

I have been having a look around Google .... I had NO Idea (Purely cause I hadn't looked )

There are SO many HUGE beaches and salt (looking) flats ,,, they are fuggin everywhere

Buffalo creek
Mickett creek
Gunn point (as you said)
Glyde point

What about the beaches north of Hotham Looks BIGGER than your beach Gozzy

And then ... drumroll .... theres Dundee Beach Looks like it gets over 1km wide !!

Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ...Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ... Please dont be a national park ...


Somebody tell me Dundee beach is NOT a national park !!


Or The Slat (looking) flats north of Kununurra on the WA side of the border
There has to be something special there !!

I am starting to like the look of this
Better get a gun rack made for the bug.

Don't forget to take some croc treats with ya as well.

Dundee Beach ...I forgot about that one....bit of a drive though...and is not national park...and you may need a 4x4 to get there in the wet season, unless they have bitumuned the road...

As for Buffalo Creek.....I think the Rangers have squashed that one for land kiting .....but you could give it a try...watch out for the pack of wild dogs that hang around there as well...they love kids ...

If you you do go up there go see Geoff at FunSupply at Nightcliff and ask him what the go is...

Barrie

Don't forget to take some croc treats with ya as well.

I use to take the wife fishing with me as insurance...crocs usually go for the smallest prey..the one they are most likely to get..

Hmmmm.....I just had a moment of clarity......I am starting to realise why I am divorced...

Cheers,

Barrie

I use to take the wife fishing with me as insurance...crocs usually go for the smallest prey..the one they are most likely to get..

Hmmmm.....I just had a moment of clarity......I am starting to realise why I am divorced...

Cheers,

Barrie

Hmmm I wonder why

Crock snacks ........... check
Wild dogs ............... check
4wd ..................... check
Ranger .................. check
Geoff @ Funsupply .... check
Wife as decoy .......... check


My goodness golly gratuitous me !!!!! some of them beaches look absolutely massive .... the Sandbars to the north of and the beach itself at Gunn point ! Far out Brussel sprout.

I wonder why they call it 'Dingo' point ... I am going to associate that with no 2 on the list

Soooooooooooooooo many big beaches ...

Where the FUG is Kneebuster when you need him



Hey Gozzy .... need a new e-mote organized.
1 Croc chasing a buggy please

This is what you need to get mounted on your buggy, deal with all kiting problems-Crocs,rangers,wild dogs low flying planes, other non kiting beach goers,etc.

the rules of living in the Top End :
* MUST be able to drink copious amounts of alcohol every day
* if its Dangerous... it's ok to do it
* if you look like a fruit loop doing it ..you will fit in at Dundee Beach
* If it pisses off a politician ..it gets banned
* if you get caught doing anything illegal blame your neighbour
*if that fails ..Declare you are of aboriginal descent
* beer IS the official Currency in Northern Territory.
* you must live there for a minimum of 150 years before you are can call yourself a local (a lot of local look they have too! )

you must own one (or all) of the following : Ute, Gun (or some sort of weapon) , shed, block of land (at Dundee) , tattoo, 2 or more fridges and finally a Pig Dog.

u moving up there or just work again

Heh heh heh @ Video ... nice one Jeremy, I we go I will have to get you to make up a bracket to mount one of those babies on the forks of the Cougar + a clip on each side rail for ammunition (Don't want to make her out of balance)

Baggsy .... after meeting you, I have a fair idea of the 'long term' effects of the NT (God have mercy on the James clan)


Simon .... Currently in $$ negotiations, from there I/we will decide what to do
I gave em me terms and then like all good bosses, they chopped me out at the knees ... so now it's the battle of the wills


Gee I speak s&$t ..... in reality, they came back about 30% under what I asked for and I said no .... then I said please sir, could I have some more.


Back @ it on Monday for round 2

Marty
Lucky to be unlucky

they came back about 30% under what I asked for and I said no .... then I said please sir, could I have some more.

30% could be ur either your tax money, OR, a nice mini gun mounted on the cougar.... Being its NT, im sure the tax man is slow and pissed up that way, so i'd budget for the new cougar mod

Dave

30% will be the difference between getting by or getting ahead.


Though a machine gun up front sounds mighty good fun
You would have to be careful not to shoot down your kite during turns

No Point going in under gunned. Maybe try one of these

To become a local in the NT you have to do two things...

Shoot a buffalo

&

R**t a local

or was it the other way round...I was drunk anyway...????

Barrie

I'm in !!

It's happening !!

Leave Monday ... back home around 2014
Look out Crocks, yer gunna meet the Cougar


anyone got any Buffalo razors ?