South wind sucks!

T.S. Maria and her associated weather seems to have passed us, its a beautiful morning out in Rodney Bay today.
We got some good beach break surf on saturday at a very remote beach on the east coast, totally glassy and big solid east swell doing its thing... pretty sweet vibe at 6 in the morning,  4 wheel driving off road for 1/2hr  through the jungle (stopping off only to collect guava and avocados) to arrive on a totally deserted beach with the only sound the roar of spitting barrels, gotta love the unspoilt Southern Caribbean! ... Well, some people are trying to spoil it, local builders down the beach this morning mining sand!! check the "lake" in one of the pics on the beachfront, a result of people removing the beaches bit by bit for personal gain, i sure wouldnt want my house built with beach sand (unwashed) imagine how little time your reinforcing has being packing in salty sand concrete!!

Got a few pics from over the weekend, forgot my board attachment unfortunately for the morning surf sesh and the light wasnt to good either.

We could see waves barreling and spitting from wayy up here! ... I think its solid today

Sand mining consequences .... where's the beach ??

Time to paddle out

freaky trees 

Unfortunately by the afternoon the SSE wind had picked up and ruined it all for us, we still had sweet afternoon limin' on the east coast with a few rum and cokes and BBQ chicken.
Looks like some wind forecast for later on this, hopefully we can finally get out on the kites again!

Here comes T.S. Maria ...

TROPICAL STORM MARIA @ CROWNWEATHER.COM
The atlantic seems to be a mass of cloud right now, a large wave is over the northern leewards and T.S. Maria not far behind and moving west @ 20 KNOTS!!! at the moment, with a turn to the WNW later that is predicted to put her over barbuda, hope for the sake of barbuda it doesnt strengthen any more.
Looks like we will get some more sick waves and a bit of rain from tomorrow into saturday, lookin like another nice swell with cranking southerly to south easterly offshores on saturday morning ..... WAHOOO!

SWELL WIND FORECAST @ WINDGURU

Good to see beth from KITESURFING ST LUCIA back on the island after being away in Europe and UK training for her olympic campaign in 2012. One day back and she was already out on the laser.

It seems she has also brought the wind, my trusty KISS wind generator has been cranking away since last night with around 15 knots, i wint be running the engine today!

Stay tuned for monday .... should have some more pics of our latest wave session, who knows ... might even get a kite out in the waves somewhere with 18knt southerlies.

BEN

Victoria getting ready for T.S. Maria

Up the mizzen with GOPRO camera

Katia visits ... Maria not far away!

As predicted we got some nice waves here in the south caribbean from hurricane KATIA, although it seems the best of the swell passed friday night we still got some solid glassy waves friday, saturday and sunday. once again i had GOPRO out!! So nice to share perfect waves with a few of ya mates!

Jonny cranks off the bottom

into a roundhouse

We are now looking into the atlantic and TS MARIA is looming on the horizon, gathering her strength to send us some more sick waves for the weekend. check the STORMPULSE LINK to keep up to date on her movements. Stay tuned for more ....

August 2011 ...

Well into the midst of hurricane season now in and it looks like its hotting up, IRENE has blazed north of us here and we got a nice day of overhead waves on a left point out east. But today i see KATIA heating up in the Atlantic and this weekend should be one to remember, 3m swells forecast with a 15 second period and light offshore winds !!! My 6'7 is off the shelf and waxed ready roll, with new GOPRO fcs mount resined into the nose area.

Sunday we took the boat for a run down the coast to a seldom visited (by yachts) bay for a BBQ with friends and a bit of cliff jumping, the GOPRO keeps on amazing with the cool angles this it will shoot, 

Check these out ......

Local boy shows us how its done

All alone in a beautiful bay

STAY TUNED NEXT WEEK FOR SOME HURRICANE SWELL ACTION SHOTS AND UPDATE ...............

KITESURF GRENADINES

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Dont forget to come join us this season in the beautiful windy grenadines !!!!!!!

Storms and Camera's.......

STORMS..

Waking up this morning i see the tropical wave we have been keeping on eye on for the last several days is now showing a very high chance of becoming a tropical depression/name storm in the next day or so and seems like it will pass very close to us here in st lucia .... our storm plan begins NOW. check this out.

NOAA HURRICANE WATCH

Looks like we will also get some nice wind and waves too ..... wahoooooooo!

On a brighter note, CAMERA'S...

We will very soon be stocking  GOPRO HD CAMERAS , first due to arrive very soon, lookin forward to that. anyone joining us on our trips from now on will be able to "try before you buy". These are amazing tiny cameras that are fully waterproof, can mount almost anywhere and take full 1080 HD video and 5megapixel stills !!!

Small enough?

GoPro with surfboard Mount

STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES ..........

2011 /2012 Season ...

We are now taking bookings for 2011/2012 season.

We have 2 great trips planned in December where single cabins are available ... great for couples or single travellers, good prices and 15% discount if you book before october 1.
DATES ... 1st week December 3rd - 10th
                  2nd week December 10th - 17th

The Boat is also still available over the New Year period, anywhere in the Caribbean you wish ......
BVI? Antigua/Barbuda? St Martin? Guadeloupe? Grenadines? Get a group together and let know where you wanna go !!!!!!!

We also are offering 8 days for the price of 7 for all trips booked before october 1.
Gotta love a free day of kiting in the islands !!!

contact us on +758-713-3046 or via email at caribbeankitesurfari@mac.com

Anyone looking for new gear this season should be checking what LIQUID FORCE is putting out for 2012 season! Sickest harness i seen out in a while, some nice surfboards in the lineup, will be adding one or 2 of this to the quiver this year, kites are looking nice with some big changes to the HIFI (including a new name) and the introduction of new light wind machine.  We plan to have some demo kit onboard this year for guests to try out. Boards and Kites. just ordered me a couple of new 2012 Envys' .. sweeet

Spent a bit of time updating a few things on our site today too,  check it,

http://www.caribbeankitesurfaris.com/Site_2/Welcome.html