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Kitesurf Location - Killarney ( ID killarney )      Hits: 1170
 
You are here: Australia > Australia > Kitesurf Location - Killarney ( ID killarney )
Continent: Australia
Country: Australia
Next Big City (Airport):  Melbourne
Next Town: Warrnambool, Port Fairy
Latitude:   -38.3602
Longitude: 142.2933
Type:
- Ocean
Rider Ability:
- Intermediate
- Expert

Good for:
- Kitesurf
- Windsurf
Features:
- Parking

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Water
Type:
- Shallow
- Flat
- Small Wave (< 1m)
Hazards:
- Animals
- Rocks

Quality:
- Crystal Clear
Best Tide:
- Tide Independent


Depending on the wind direction and strength, this place can be paradise. It has all to offer in about a 1km square inside the reefs, or an abundance of Bass Straight. It has perfectly clear water on a nice sea breeze and you can view many stingrays and large fish swimming under you. It has many little rock beds around the place that offer shelter from the wind chop for perfectly smooth kiting. Quite deep mostly. Out behind the reefs, you can hit nice point breaks, that get to about 3 foot, glassy clear water.

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 Beach
Type:
- Sand
Size:
- Depending on Tide

Hazards:
- Rocks
Location crowds:
- None


Bit weedy, but rather nice and open, not much area to launch your kite at high tide! Soft sand, plenty of launch area at low tide. Car park is 10m from the beach.

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 Weather
Spring:
- Normal Wetsuit
Summer:
- Shorty

Fall:
- Normal Wetsuit
Winter:
- Normal Wetsuit
- Thick Wetsuit / Drysuit


Very cold, 13°C mostly, but warmer of course in summer. 5mm wetsuit or 4/3, even a drysuit would be good. In summer air about 26°C and water about 20°C. When the wind picks up (15-20 knots sea breaze) a spring suit is most comfortable.

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 Wind

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Best Months:
- January
- February
- December
Wind Type:
- Thermal Winds

Best Direction:
- SE
- SSE
- S
- SSW
- SW
Main Direction:
- SE
- SW


8/10 days blows SE or SW in the summer, between 10-20 knots. Works on SE, S, SW.

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 How to get there
Transport:
- Car
Access:
- Short Walk


From Melbourne, head to Port Fairy. Killarney Beach is at the Irish Village of Killarney half way between Warrnamool and Port Fairy. Travel along the Princess Highway from Warrnambool to Port Fairy and turn left at the Killarney Pub on the right hand side, and don't forget to look at the red pink flag at the antique shop to see the direction and strength!

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 Rules, Restrictions and Extra Info
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No Information




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