Kitesurfing atThe Entrance (Nouvelle-Galles du Sud)

A good spot to learn and progress: the lake water is flat, shallow and waveless, which is reassuring. You mostly ride from the eastern shore (Picnic Point / Long Jetty area). The thing to watch is the wind direction: you want a wind blowing off the lake toward you (westerly sector), otherwise you end up pushed toward the road and its obstacles (see safety). Schools operate on the Central Coast.

The good wind here comes from the west through south-west and north-west: it blows off the lake toward the eastern shore where you stand, brings you back, and smooths the shallow water. These are mostly frontal winds, more common outside high summer. The summer thermal breeze comes from the north-east, but it's a trap here (it pushes you toward the road — see safety). The lake being closed, the tide is negligible.

The Entrance is on the Central Coast, about an hour and a half north of Sydney. The kite spot is Tuggerah Lake, a large shallow lagoon (a few metres deep on average, seagrass), ridden from the eastern shore (Picnic Point / Long Jetty). It's not the ocean beach, behind the peninsula to the east. The town is also known for its pelicans, fed daily by the channel.