Well it had to happen sooner or later, but it looks like the restrictions have finally been decided on.



In true council style no feedback has been asked from any of the kiters, but instead been decided on by a couple of jobs worths with little or nothing else to do, plucking random crap of websites and calling it research.



The restrictions are going to be seasonal, and basically mean that nobody is to kite on the righthand side of an imaginary line from the car park to Little Eye. This was decided on from a report from a twitcher that two bird species numbers were declining, and that it was probably down to the kiters flying there "giant birds of prey". Incidentally, this report was full of inconstistencies, such as a record that said there were no birds on one particular day, but they were later scared of by a kiter!!?? Huh? The study says there were 7 incidents when the birds were scared of by kiters (over 6 months), which totalled a huge 10%.



The new "zone" is going to be in deeper water (directly out from the lake wall), and as we all know, kiters go downwind a lot when they are first learning.



Now, in a W/SW wind that means any kiter on a big tide going downwind is going to hit the lake wall. Great. Call an ambulance.



In a N/NW wind any kiter going downwind is going to end up well out of their depth somewhere in the moorings. Great. Call the lifeboat.



In a S wind, any kiter going downwind will end up in the "banned" area. Great. Call the voluntary bird wardens.



Now, not that any of us kiters know any better (we've only got about 5 million years experience between us of the area) but isn't it a little strange how none of us were spoken to about it? Just for the record, I spoke to "Adam" the head jobs worth, sorry, ranger about meeting up with some kiters on numerous occasions, but he was not interested. To busy dreaming up half baked ideas no doubt.



Dickheads.