| Comments | :: | Porterville 'Winelands' SA Nationals. Crazy South Easter gales for the first 3 days severely tests my normally sunny disposition. I bleat how stupid it is for a site to be so close to Langebaan, the kitesurfing mecca. From day 4 it was taskable, with the long ridge highly unpleasant, with the South winds rotoring along it, but just dreamy away from it - sort of like epic UK days, every day. I did better with legs into the moderate winds over the flats out front, but the scenery of the Cederberg when we went over the back was awesome. My usual plodding style of getting to goal slowly, but reliably, paid dividends and I scooped some goodies for 2nd place Sport class (cruelly deprived of 1st by some racing snake on the last day. Must speed up somehow). Nice comp and very nice people. |
