Western Australia

Gum nuts, can I assume your banned from leaving your family in the late afternoons in your attempts to find buggy nivarna.

The seabreeze is so good down there, I know it's a bit hot but have found the best time to be on your lake or mine is around 5 pm onwards.The heat drops off and the breeze is consistant an strong. (especially your end of the world). I buggy right up to dark and don't haveto compete with model airplanes, blowcarts or landyachts.

regards Shane

Gum nuts, can I assume your banned from leaving your family in the late afternoons in your attempts to find buggy nivarna.

The seabreeze is so good down there, I know it's a bit hot but have found the best time to be on your lake or mine is around 5 pm onwards.The heat drops off and the breeze is consistant an strong. (especially your end of the world). I buggy right up to dark and don't haveto compete with model airplanes, blowcarts or landyachts.

regards Shane

Hi Shane,

No not banned, but Sunday mornings are easy for me as the wife and kids go to church! I can get out most evenings except Wednesdays and Sunday's.

If you are heading down one evening give me a shout as would be good to meet up...

They have only got a few more weeks and then no more little planes or land yachts

Mark

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hi perth buggers are any of you heading to salt lakes at baldivis on weekend i got weekend off and might go for a buggy there if any one going what time and day you going

hi perth buggers are any of you heading to salt lakes at baldivis on weekend i got weekend off and might go for a buggy there if any one going what time and day you going

I am usually down there early Sunday mornings, but at present the forecast isn't looking to good. Sunday arvo is better but the blowkarts and land yachts are down there. Saturday is out for me as we have plans.

Will play it by ear and see how the wind shapes up for Sunday morning, its easy for me as its only 5 minutes from home - so if I wake up and the wind is blowing I will be there!

There looks like there maybe a bit of wind Sunday morning - depends which site you use. I will probably be there early as usual.

Made a map -

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South westerlys tomorrow, not the best direction, but the wind speed is better. I will be down there tomorrow morning.

Afternoon for me, probably bring the buggy trailer and the kids.

will bring a few extra kites down to cover wind conditions and /or newbies !

Regards Shane

Did anyone else get out?

I was down there from 7.30 - Wind was pretty poor, took a lot of work with the 5m flow to get any momentum. But did have a go at up-wind turns - first go didn't make it round! But got better at it after a few attempts, just need to try it with a bit more speed!

hey gum nutts i got up around lunch played up far end of land yaughts wind was a bit dirty shane rolled up then land yaughts packed up went down there wind was better there had a good buggy will let ya know next time i come up hope to see ya there

Hey Trevor, on for sale section under "sportskites and race kites for sale". Jampony has a bunch of PL Vapours. I would make him an offer for the 2.3, 3.8 and the 6.5 if he still has it. It's a shop, and he offers a set of lines (handles)?? with each Vapour.

If I was you, track them down and grab them asap, doa deal for both the small ones at least. Get handles and lines ($500) for the lot including postage.

If he goes for it you have a good deal and the kites will cover you down at safety bay for a long time to come, Vapours are the Bomb!!

The 2.3 was the kite that holds the world record ----138 kms\hr

Goood luck, if you get them you will be stoked.

Regards Shane

I am heading down to the salt lakes tomorrow arvo for a couple of hours, will probably be there from 1.30-2ish - decent south westerly forecast.

Sunday looks like a decent easterly, so will be heading down nice and early Sunday morning.

see you there...

We won't be around this weekend. Trying to scrape together enough money for a buggy, will probably just fly around the city until then.

Still forecast for a nice easterly tomorrow :-)
Hope it's enough to keep the little planes grounded

Only been out once in the last couple of months. Last weekend we went down to Rockingham, checked out Laurie Stanford, but no wind there. No wind in the city, the only place there was wind was the salt lake, so we headed out there for a static fly.

Jo tried out her second hand 2m Beamer, I had to tweek the brakes to get it to fly nice. Did the same to my Reactor. Wind was gusty and changed direction a lot, but at least it was blowing.

Finally got my Guerilla launched properly (it is much easier with a helper). Had a little fun with it, then the depower line snapped.

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Only been out once in the last couple of months. Last weekend we went down to Rockingham, checked out Laurie Stanford, but no wind there. No wind in the city, the only place there was wind was the salt lake, so we headed out there for a static fly.

Jo tried out her second hand 2m Beamer, I had to tweek the brakes to get it to fly nice. Did the same to my Reactor. Wind was gusty and changed direction a lot, but at least it was blowing.

Finally got my Guerilla launched properly (it is much easier with a helper). Had a little fun with it, then the depower line snapped.

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Does seem some missing! But nice to be back.

Forecast looks lame for this weekend -again! Did have half an hour static on the new vapor yesterday, very nice cant wait to try it the buggy.

Now looking better for Sunday, especially late morning if I can avoid the showers will probably head to Singleton to have a run in the buggy. Keeping fingers crossed it stays the same or improves.

Monday is looking pretty decent, I am off with the kids, wonder if they want to come down the park?

Frustrating! What was forecast for westerlys, which would of suited Laurie Stanford Reserve perfectly has now changed to northerlies . So looks like the buggy and the kites aren't going anywhere tomorrow.

Monday is looking favorable, just need to convince the kids!

At least somebody is getting some action...

A lone kite surfer...




Not the best shots, was down on the Rockingham foreshore this arvo after taking the dog for a walk on the beach and spotted the kite through the trees, went and had a look and took a couple on the iPhone - so the quality is pretty poor!

Looks like there will be a little bit of wind around on Sunday morning. Jo has football though, so I might not be able to go anywhere.

Looks like there will be a little bit of wind around on Sunday morning. Jo has football though, so I might not be able to go anywhere.

Looks a North Easterly so not the best for Singleton, just keeping my fingers crossed it swings around a bit.