2022 02 26 - Kiting weekend - Bremlea - session #1

A great south easterly forecast had us all very excited.  Big plans were made - including a bremlea to point impossible session, then a round trip to Point Lonsdale.  Of course, the wind had other ideas.
I shared the trip down with James and Pete, Tarren and Stu joined forces, Adam bought the camper, Anthony and Dobbo arrived solo.  Wind seemed strong at Bremlea, but on hitting the beach it was more like 15 to 16 knots.  Quite a struggle most of the time just holding a line - the big surf was moving a lot of water on shore so it was constantly pushing you off.  We had about 15 mins of decent wind, the rest was just hard work. 
Eventually we abandoned and went for brunch in Torquay to setup for the day.  Poor dobbo had to bail early for family stuff so a tiny bit of Bremlea was all he got to see.

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