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 20th November 2010
Kite surfing: Ynyslas - estuary
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Wow ! A wonderful 4 hours on the water. Ynyslas is such an incredible place. At 7am it was absolutely dead calm in Llanafan. Refreshed the weather station web page as I walked past the laptop (becoming a habit these days - I think I need help!) and it was showing 20kts E. Couldn't believe it and checked the time and date to make sure !! In Aber and Bow St not a leaf was moving - but sure enough opened the car door at about 8am at the estuary to be greeted with steady 20mph wind coming down the valley. It stayed all morning even though the forecast never showed more than 10-12. Al was already out windsurfing and making some decent pace. Expecting the wind to die I inflated my 12m kite to find a small tear in it (arrgh). Didnt want to risk it, but fate was on my side and the wind was building. Quickly up with the 9m and what a session! As the tide fell the mirror smooth speed channel emerged and I had some really, really fast runs. Just thinking what a good hour or two I'd had when several other kiters appeared on the beach so stayed out for another couple of hours. Spent some time playing around trying to get the hang of jumping and got some helpful advice too, managed to get a few feet off the water and land it sometimes. Quite a few failures too of course. Its all in the timing - which I havn't yet got nailed reliably. The other guys were of course doing loads of high jumps...and making it look so easy :). Considering this time last year I'd only done buggying and landboarding I'm very happy. Today was at least 6 stars for me :)

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