![]() ![]() If it wasn't us kiters it will be dog owners or horse riders,jet skiers anyone and everyone that doesn't conform to their blinkered shallow view on what they want in the world, so once one gets his fifteen minutes of fame in the papers the rest of the sad sacks will jump on the band wagon and turn the screws on the council who will then "carefully consider what to do" before banning us. ![]() Then they'll winge on that they remember when "This beach was always buzzing with life, with people enjoying their summers and week-ends" ![]() The reason for this is simple, they are the ones putting the local councilors in power, they are the local vocal Victor Meldrews with enough time in their lonely lives to write or visit their council and consantly ***** on for no reason other than self importance and the willingness to decry something they don't or won't understand just to see the beach as empty and desolate as their tawdry little pathetic lives. Now when you're faced with that sort of mentality, and make no mistake about it they sadly are not a silent minority, you're up against it because those sort of ill informed, biaised and narrow minded killjoys will be our down fall. The woman turned giving me a look of total disgust and said " Oh, bloody kites, bloody menace they are what we ought to try and get banned" One of them then said "Oh I think we're in somebody's way". They stood with their backs to me "apparently unaware" that I was waiting for them to pass. I had an incident there last summer when a group of 50 somethings wandered under my kite which I landed to wait for them to pass. Seems some are not happy unless they're spoiling it for everyone else. Hi all, agree with all you've put so far, makes my blood boil too Mike!!! "A voluntary code of practice has been established with jet skiers and it may be that something like this is needed in this situation."Ī meeting between local enthusiasts and the council scheduled for next month will discuss the idea of a voluntary March 2007 "There has got to be a balance between people enjoying these activities and people enjoying the beach. Sven Grunwald – who owns Oceanside kite and water sports shop in Southend Road, Hunstanton – said the problem was probably caused by "outsiders" and added local residents follow strict guidelines about where and when activities can be carried out throughout the busy summer months.Ī spokesman for West Norfolk Council – which manages much of the coastline from Heacham to Brancaster – said: "It is something which is becoming an issue as it is becoming more popular. He said the estate would be discussing putting warning and information signs on the beach. "People can access the beach from one of many entrances – we cannot have someone sitting at all the entrances saying people can't bring in certain things." Le Strange Estate landowner Michael Meakin said: "How can you control what everyone is doing all the time? ![]() "Not only is there a possibility of being hit by a rogue cart, but the lines affixed from the cart to the sail could easily plummet and get dangerously caught around you – heaven knows what damage that would do to you." The 42-year-old – who walks along the beach most days – said: "They whiz up and down the sands, discordant to the coastline and sprawl some 200 yards up the beach. Simon Harding, from Sedgeford, says the carts – which are pulled along by kites on windy days – are increasingly popular on the beach. VISITORS to Old Hunstanton beach could be injured by kite buggies racing across the sand, a regular beach user has warned. Therefore, if you have a kiteboard on wheels, this is your best chance to use it.Kite beach buggies spark danger fears in Old Hunstanton In fact, among the many beaches of our island, Alcudia beach is the only beach of Mallorca, in which the condition of the sand, the wideness of it and the wind direction provides us with the advantages necessary to practice kite buggy … only during the winter time and on an empty beach, of course. Has anybody thought about it? … if yes it has probably been because you like to fly kites, you are most likely a kitesurfer and because you have been in a hard sand broad beach.Īfter a kite session in Alcudia beach, one of this winter days in which the beach is free of people and when all the other kiters are already gone, leaving the beach almost to ourselves taking profit of the low tide and the hard wet sand one of our kite friends try to ride its buggy dragged by his 9 mts tube kite ![]()
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