Kite boarding (aka Kite Surfing,
Kite Sailing) is a cross between wake boarding, flying a kite, hang-gliding
and windsurfing, taking only the best out of each sport. It is wake
boarding on steriods. Ditto that for windsurfing.
Kite boarding is windsurfing with lighter,
higher performance equipment resulting in extreme performance capabilities.
Kite boarding brings together many skills from other extreme sports to
create a new phenomenom in the capabilities of watersports.
Kite boarding on Key Biscayne is amazing.
The wind is perfect, the beaches and launching sites are perfect and the
water is perfect.
The details are laid out like this...
Drive right up to the beach on Virginia
Key with your basic necessities cooling down in your ice chest, change
your clothes (when you are skipping work), and launch your board.
For 500' off of the coast, you can stand
in waist-deep water, so there are plenty of places, miles in fact, that
if you miss getting started, it is an easy try again.
Now for the wind. The entire first
week of March has been sustained winds of 20 miles per hour. Gusts
will give you some serious hang time. If you are into that kind of
thing.
Serious speed, serious air time.
Virginia Key is the last island before
the island of Key Biscayne. The launch site of choice has become,
over the past few months, at the traffic light before the Miami Seaquarium.
