I love Overlanding, camping and travelling around Australia with our off road caravan, and I also love water sports which has mainly been windsurfing to date but I guess I will get a foil at some stage in the near future. Checkout any of my playlists depending on your interests Overlanding and Camping Windsurfing and Foil
It can really change from one day to the next. We went through and it was a piece of cake. A couple of days before a truck got stuck and dug huge holes that everyone was falling in to. You just have to pull up and make an assessment,
@andrewford80 yeah that's true, no harm done, we did also take our van into Purnululu and smashed our pull out step, but once again no big deal and it didn't cost a lot to get fixed when we got home. Can't wait to do more of these trips 👌
Good on Fraser, very enterprising! Watching those wading in knee-deep water and some with dogs, and wondering if they realise it's Saltie paradise! Went through there some years ago in a Unimog when the river was still flowing, impossible to see depth/obstacles/etc and at one time the 'Mog almost tipped over when the wheels dropped off the edge. About a dozen (or more) Salties watching, but more would have been lurking. Fraser wasn't around back then!
There had been a lot of rain so we saw no saltys, I flew the drone up and down the river and saw none but they could have been there. I think if we had stuck to the right we may have hot through but I was worried about falling off the track
Hi we actually travelled the Gibb last year, I've just been really slack at processing my video, I'm more of a photographer lol. Anyway check the conditions I'm sure that Kununurra Info centre or El Questro can let you know, I don't think it is usually too bad depending on recent rain fall 👌
Hey Barney I am not a fin expert but I believe you need around a 45 degrees rake. The 2 most common fins are the Atomic Nuclear weed and the Tectonics Speed Demon these are both delta fins. The other fins used are super weeds which are made by Tribal and Atomic. There will be others but they are the ones I am familiar with. Hope this helps mate
Hey Rob, thanks, yep it was a good day, I did close to 35 knts and there was at least one 40 knt speed for one of the sailors, lots in the high 30's. The wind isn't as strong this year, probably due to all the cyclones up north.
@@uhaggar Thanks for the reply. Last time I windsurfed was 25 years ago. We moved to San Diego and fhere is no wind here. I’m no shape to do this again tho this was my hobby for more then a decade in the 80’s and 90’s. I didn’t run a uphaul soon after I learned to waterstart since uphauling where I surfed was near impossible with the board sinking and the chop.
People around the world watching this may not realise that this lake is usually dry and empty throughout the year. It's farmland to multiple different owners, there are fences seperating the different land titles... in that lake.
Isn’t it also about the apparent wind? ie, once you pump up onto the plane, you’ve virtually got a constant laminar flow over the sail!? With such a smooth water surface, there’s very low resistance too! Cheers
another nice one Glenn with excellent cinematography. Was nice to see my old stomping ground where I learnt to windsurf back in the 80's and doesn't appear to have changed too much re development. Don't think I've ever seen it still like that, always had wind.
Paul, last year it stayed very flat no matter the wind strength, this year the water level is higher and less weed and not very flat, each year can be different
