Manchester State Beach, CA

[le noun]

Hey everyone!
A quick search on the forum about this beach didn't return anything.
A friend of mine is looking at a house there and wonder what the conditions are like as far as kiting goes?
Since it's only 3 hours driving up north from here, I was picturing the usual northern Cali ocean condition: big surf and big wind in the spring ( he'll probably need something smaller than his 7m) and then smaller surf but still some pretty strong winds in the summer?

Looks like a loooooong sandy beach facing a bit WNW so I supposed it would be almost straight onshore.

Any inputs would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers!

[wjb]

http://www.californiasbestbeaches.com/m ... s_mob.html

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Wildlife around
Manchester State Park
The combination of beach, sand dunes, wetlands, and streams provide habitat for a variety of wildlife.

Birds
Endangered Snowy Plovers nest in the sands above the high water mark at Manchester Beach. Nesting areas may be cordoned off and posted. Visitors should be on the alert for the difficult-to-spot nests in the sand. Dogs are not permitted in the area because even their scent can cause birds to abandon their nests. Kites flown overhead can be mistaken by the birds as predator birds and may also cause nest abandonment.

Will these fuckers become extinct already

[Aloha]

Vincent I'm also thinking it might be a cold foggy summer up there?

I am under the impression that in California a lot of the summer sea breezy / fogless open spots are little stretches that are shadowed by a NW point then break as a S or SW facing coastline. A lot also include either a shallower "bay" type feature, or channel islands.

I think about Santa Cruz, Morro Bay, Avila/Pismo, Santa Barbara, Malibu, Santa Monica bay, Long Beach, etc. and this effect

Most likely climatologically alters S / SW facing coastline real estate pricing for this reason.

I'm guessing Manchester's NW frontage along with lack of any kind of shallower bay, channel island or graduated wind on-shoring structure would make for quick and dramatic fog formation and no off-shore fogline. And for summer coastal kiting a well established off-shore fogline pumping wind at its edge is the california dream

[JimmyJack]

Will these fuckers become extinct already

LOL

How can they be endangered if they are everywhere!!!!????

[le noun]

Aaaahhh... The infamous snowy plovers...

[Cosmicocean]

Was just there last few days,
Sure was intimidating beachbreak with winter ninio swell,
Whitewater explosions the size of container ships ,
Beach is sandy and long tho, guess would be good for spring, summer
I think access is on south end, if that case better stay upwind as cliffs and rocks
Look pretty unforgiving if in trouble,
My 2c

[le noun]

How about point arena? Not too far of a drive from there it seems...

[Kitesurfitis]

I got a session in there a couple of summers ago when we were camping at Salt Point. Barely enough for the 11 and waves were head high. Beach is long but pretty tight, there is a ten foot tall bluff along the whole beach on the south end that doesn't leave much room for launching. It was a spooky solo sesh, i came in after a few tacks cause i didnt want to drop the kite in the waves, it was thumping even at head high. The surf set up is like the NW facing beach in pt reyes park. As for Pt Arena, the cove is sheltered and full of kelp. All the things that make it a good surf spot make it a bad kite spot. I imagine when you get a full blow up there it gets macking. Seems to blow from the north up there so kinda side on like OB.