The wind was just over 25 knots, which on a good day has become easily achievable, and it was good to have it confirmed. Blowfeed is back up and running thanks to Best Kite Shop now hosting it. A colourful graph and a webcam has also been added to it- nice guys.
Blowfeed. The blowfeed live feed, which is based at Blouberg, has been off for approximately 12 months and many kiters have been using Milnerton Aquatics Club's web site for free live wind speeds. However many have thought their speeds were conservative and today when blowfeed was showing 25 knots average, Milnerton Aquatics club was showing about 5 knots less. To be fair though it is about a kilometer or more from the beach.
Milnerton.
The free live feed coming from Sharkwind, though it really looks impressive and offers a myriad of different locations, sometimes poses a question or two, about direction or strength, though often gives a respectable reading.
Sharkwind.
It is good to know that the south easter is starting to pick up energy - bodes well for the kiting ahead.
I passed Haakgat at around 18:00 hours and the sun was heading low and the chop and reflectance on the water made it look like liquid graphite.
The waves were not impressive but from time to time a reasonable set would appear and be ripped by a kiter.
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