Poor Kite Girl her Kite is Sick!

My favourite kite 7m Rebel is sick... I can't believe this is happening again! It's not dead so I still can fly it but not a happy bunny at all.

Loving Seabreezes

It was a truly great weekend! Well, maybe not the beginning of it, when Gavin got our wonderly wagoon stuck in the lagoon with the tide coming it... oh, it's forgotten now! :)
Big campfires, yummy food on bbq, lots of friends, warm and sunny weather and... windy! :) Seebreeze arrived on Saturday around 5pm and lasted for 2h! Had a blast on Gavin's 14m and got few jump transitions and bakrolls landed. On Sunday stared blowing around 3pm but very light, went out on my 12m and Oscar's Nobile skimboard - lots of fun, specially in the little waves, but how do you tack on this thing?!?!? :) Wind picked up around 5pm and I was nicely powered up on my 12m and normal board but unfortunately it was directly onshore and with the tide fully in there wasn't enough beach to try anything. Have to leave frontrols for next weekend...

Another windless weekend?

Forecast doesn't look good... again... what's new? :)
I really miss wind. Would give up sunshine and few degrees for a good session!
Maybe we get lucky in our most windy spot - Belmullet.

More photos from Dee!

Waiting for wind...

Another one from Dee! Nika, Kasia, Aleks, Lena

It was great laugh!

It was the best organised kitesurfing event in Ireland ever!!! :) Pity wind didn't come to play and freestyle heats had to be cancelled. Sea breeze kicked in late on Saturday and it was great to take part in my first kite race - I have to say I had no idea where was the finish line!!! :) Gavin came third - well done babes! Pure Magic never gives up and we had more land based comps on Sunday, like kite pumping...:) Prizes for freestyle were raffled and I got lucky winning 2nd for the Ladies! Jenny has become queen of the bay.
Dee (Deirdre Swan) took some amazing photos, all above are hers!

Typical...

Big comp tomorrow and absolutely no wind forecasted! :(

Surfing in Kerry

June Bank Holiday was almost great... sunny, hot, away in beautiful Kerry but...no wind! :(
Were camping in Dumps for 4 days and really enjoyed bbq-s and campfires at the evening. Girls went mad on mojitos!!! I'm the biggest fan :)
Tried to surf... very difficult and awfully hard work, my arms are still sore. Managed to stand up once or twice and wobble for a tiny bit but that's all. Waves on Sunday got big enough - I felt like I was in the washing machine with the highest spin on! :) No doubt - kitesurfing is so much easier!
Surprisingly got a session on Monday! No wind forecasted, boys went to Tralee, Amanda, Scrappy and I chilling out and out of nowhere it started blowing 16knots... Pumped my 12m Vegas and went for a lonely ride. Wind picked up big time and after half an hour i was flying with the depower strap fully pulled in and still overpowered. Would be great for my 7m! But wind lasted only about 2h and by the time boys arrived and Gavin got ready to go out there was not much left for the birthday boy :( It was my very first session in shorty in Ireland!
Oh, by the way Amanda is a total KITE ADDICT now too!!! :)