ricki
05-24-2006, 03:49 AM
I am heading there for about a week. I am thinking of bringing my big kites just in case but i am not expecting much am i right in my thinnking
The normal short answer, as Kent says is "no." Usually, the first part of June is the calmest month of the year for the area.
Later on in June, traditionally some breeze might pickup. If you can fit your kites in bring them along, you might get lucky.
http://www.fksa.org/albums/album145/N_Bimimi_Wreck_VR_1_s.sized.jpg
Still there is a lot to do in Bimini aside from kitesurfing. Tons of fishing, billfish (sailfish and marlin) prospects , school dolphin, jigging for snapper and grouper, etc.. You might even hook into a Bluefin tuna. I was there to shoot an UW documentary a long time ago for the BBC on the tuna migration. We had wind, just from the wrong direction, so the goomers were running a couple of hundred feet deep. We went to the bar at Big Game everyday but failed to find any among the Pina Coladas. We had a guy from Oz along to tow as a teaser in an acrylic faring to film them strking baits. Almost drowned the guy but that's another story. I am not much of a fisherman so I will defer to Kent and others for more input on that.
http://www.frogmandivers.com/Sapona.jpg
There is some pretty good and varied diving there, like the wreck of the Sapona, a blasted to hell ferrocement ship, former seagoing casino/rumrunner/brothel(?) and WWII gunnery target. The wall comes up around 105 ft. off Gun Cay to the south. It drops to about 2000 ft. Viz. is often astounding with some big critters to go with. I once saw a 12 ft. hammerhead just cruising down the wall in 100 ft.+ viz..
http://www.fksa.org/albums/album145/Bimini_Customs_House_VR_1_s_001.sized.jpg
Downtown Alicetown
If you do some wall diving, watch out for deco procedures, if you are into that. At 16, I did a dive on a 72 cft. tank with only 1500 psi in it, valve leaked (about 43 cft.?). I thought I saw a cave entrance just a "bit" deeper down the wall. I ended up doing a 250 ft. bounce dive with too little gas, young and stupid! I ended up getting a minor DCS hit in one butt cheek for about a day. No recompression either, really dumb. Still, no signs of dysbaric osteo-necrosis several decades later, whew! There is even a sinkhole, roofed over still so it is a bit cryptic south of Bimini. There is the roads of Atlantis aka "natural beach rock" formation, a civil war era wreck. Tons of stuff.
There is more info and photos about Bimini and the recent Florida to Bimini kiteboarding race, Kent and Gebi won coincidentally, HERE (http://fksa.org/viewtopic.php?t=703)
Have a good trip and watchout for those Three-Toe Chickcharnie Hang Overs. Evil goomers, obeah mon.
reposted from: http://www.kiteforum.com/phpbb/posting.php?mode=editpost&p=331790
The normal short answer, as Kent says is "no." Usually, the first part of June is the calmest month of the year for the area.
Later on in June, traditionally some breeze might pickup. If you can fit your kites in bring them along, you might get lucky.
http://www.fksa.org/albums/album145/N_Bimimi_Wreck_VR_1_s.sized.jpg
Still there is a lot to do in Bimini aside from kitesurfing. Tons of fishing, billfish (sailfish and marlin) prospects , school dolphin, jigging for snapper and grouper, etc.. You might even hook into a Bluefin tuna. I was there to shoot an UW documentary a long time ago for the BBC on the tuna migration. We had wind, just from the wrong direction, so the goomers were running a couple of hundred feet deep. We went to the bar at Big Game everyday but failed to find any among the Pina Coladas. We had a guy from Oz along to tow as a teaser in an acrylic faring to film them strking baits. Almost drowned the guy but that's another story. I am not much of a fisherman so I will defer to Kent and others for more input on that.
http://www.frogmandivers.com/Sapona.jpg
There is some pretty good and varied diving there, like the wreck of the Sapona, a blasted to hell ferrocement ship, former seagoing casino/rumrunner/brothel(?) and WWII gunnery target. The wall comes up around 105 ft. off Gun Cay to the south. It drops to about 2000 ft. Viz. is often astounding with some big critters to go with. I once saw a 12 ft. hammerhead just cruising down the wall in 100 ft.+ viz..
http://www.fksa.org/albums/album145/Bimini_Customs_House_VR_1_s_001.sized.jpg
Downtown Alicetown
If you do some wall diving, watch out for deco procedures, if you are into that. At 16, I did a dive on a 72 cft. tank with only 1500 psi in it, valve leaked (about 43 cft.?). I thought I saw a cave entrance just a "bit" deeper down the wall. I ended up doing a 250 ft. bounce dive with too little gas, young and stupid! I ended up getting a minor DCS hit in one butt cheek for about a day. No recompression either, really dumb. Still, no signs of dysbaric osteo-necrosis several decades later, whew! There is even a sinkhole, roofed over still so it is a bit cryptic south of Bimini. There is the roads of Atlantis aka "natural beach rock" formation, a civil war era wreck. Tons of stuff.
There is more info and photos about Bimini and the recent Florida to Bimini kiteboarding race, Kent and Gebi won coincidentally, HERE (http://fksa.org/viewtopic.php?t=703)
Have a good trip and watchout for those Three-Toe Chickcharnie Hang Overs. Evil goomers, obeah mon.
reposted from: http://www.kiteforum.com/phpbb/posting.php?mode=editpost&p=331790