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Hey Guys,

Traveling for work next week and may be able to have a free day or two... is it worth bringing my gear?

Looks like Kailua Beach is the place to go? Any thoughts or recommendations welcome.

Peter

I've visited Kailua about 1/2-dozen times to vacation with friends - it's a nice place to kite for sure! I used to bring a golf bag with a 9m+12m, but found that it was almost always 12m weather for a TT.

It's trade wind cycles (7-10 days of wind, 7-10 days of no wind), so it's a bit hit and miss. These days I now just like to ride a surfboard there. Kailua Beach Adventures has discounted surfboard rentals for 1 week, which you can swap out for a longboard at any point when the wind is down.

Have fun!

As I'm just sort of verbalizing from above .... bring a kite and a harness. If the wind picks up, you can go kite! Kailua beach adventures is walking distance to kite beach.

Thanks!

I'll bring my harness, 10 and 14 and hope for the best.

(trip got pushed until next week)

Peter

Hey Peter - did you go? I'm headed to Kailua beach this weekend. Been there twice before, good wind once and skunked the other time.


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I did!

I got there on sunday (6/25) and went to Kailua first but there was no wind. So, I drove up to Mokuleia Beach and was able to get a light wind session there for about an hour (got really lucky with my timing). 14m + surf board there.

M-F was firing at all sites 15kts+ consistently. I was only able to get away from work on Friday afternoon and kited Kailua. It was really nice, switching between my 10 and 14, surf and twintip. I stopped around 6pm, but you could have kited until sunset.

Like some said before, it is either on for 7-10 days or off. I just got lucky that it was on. Really glad I brought my stuff! ($75 on the way there and $25 on the way back - flying virgin america)

Here are a few photos: (got to do some more product testing with the bar mount too! - shameless plug to follow me on instagram @TheBarMount)

Kailua Beach: Bar Mount Shot: Bar Mount Shot: Peter

Cali_Rider wrote:I did!

I got there on sunday (6/25) and went to Kailua first but there was no wind. So, I drove up to Mokuleia Beach and was able to get a light wind session there for about an hour (got really lucky with my timing). 14m + surf board there.

M-F was firing at all sites 15kts+ consistently. I was only able to get away from work on Friday afternoon and kited Kailua. It was really nice, switching between my 10 and 14, surf and twintip. I stopped around 6pm, but you could have kited until sunset.

Like some said before, it is either on for 7-10 days or off. I just got lucky that it was on. Really glad I brought my stuff! ($75 on the way there and $25 on the way back - flying virgin america)

Here are a few photos: (got to do some more product testing with the bar mount too! - shameless plug to follow me on instagram @TheBarMount)

Kailua Beach:

Kailua Beach.jpg

Bar Mount Shot:

BarMount_Kailua_1.jpg

Bar Mount Shot:

BarMount_Kailua_2.jpg

Peter

Cool shots. Your right about the on and off. I'm here now and definitely off :-(. Still praying to the wind gods to give us some wind. Until then, lots of idle beach time :-O


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CaliKite- Glad to hear you got to kite! And hope things turn around for you AAAdiver!