Kiteboarding the Pyramids - Cairo, Egypt

[Wallaby Willy]

Hello my kiteboarding friends in the Tampa Bay area! Certainly miss riding with you guys. This is Bill Eastburn, the tennis coach. For those of you who don't know, I have "retired" from coaching on the professional tour and have accepted a position in Cairo Egypt, directing the largest most successful tennis academy in Africa. I started in mid-March, not long after I almost died on the backside of the SW when a bridle line snapped. I hope everyone is enjoying a windy spring and the seabreezes have been a blowin'. Looks like it's been pretty good for you boys. I miss being there, I can tell you that.

Anyway, for those of you who know your geography - and who know me! - I wouldn't have relocated here UNLESS I could ride. I am a 40 minute turbo-prop jet ride to the Red Sea, my new kiteboarding home. And f'ing WOW, what a new home! Google Earth and Google kiteboarding in "Hurghada" Egypt or "El Gouna" Egypt. Easily one of the premier flat water riding spots on earth. Picture East Beach on the best 18 to 25 knot day, WITH CRYSTAL CLEAR WARM WATER AND ABSOLUTE BUTTER SMOOTH AND BLUE SKIES WITHOUT A CLOUD IN THE SKY - and you are riding with three guys, no crowds. May to October, we get 18 to 25 knot seabreeze, daily, with not even a ripple. It has been explained to me that due to the saline content of the water - The Red Sea is one of the saltiest bodies of water on earth - it is heavier and harder for the wind to pick it up and disturb it. It shows. It's sick.

No envision staying in a four to five star hotel on the beach for $35 to $65 a night, or the place of my choice, a place right on the beach connected to The El Gouna Kiteboarding Club called the Captains Inn. $18 a night for a nice clean room where I can roll out of bed and ride all day and then limp to the shower before going to the beach bar to scout the local talent and have a beer with some friends.

Standing offer is this boys - anyone that makes the trip here gets taken care of by me. I will cover all expenses upon arrival other than the airfare from Cairo to Hurghada (about $100 to $150 round trip). I will cover room and board. I have a sick place in Cairo now, as I live like a king with my salary in this economy. And, I have connections with all the best hotels due to my position at the academy and as a national here now as well. It's a direct flight from NYC to Cairo, about 10 hours. Get a JetBlue to JFK and then a flight to Cairo. A day travel for paradise on the Red Sea. Plus, we have some of the most spectacular sites in the world here with the Great Pyramids (which are basically outside the city and can been seen from where I live), The Spynx and Luxor among others. And, our windy time of year is during your NO WIND time of year, your summer. May to October. While you are bitching about heat, humidity and sub 10 knot days, I am tearing it up in a 25 knot sea breeze, flat water and about a handful of other guys in the water. Forgot to say that the water is wicked shallow, mostly over sand but over insanely beautiful reefs after about 200 meters out, where you never where booties and can ride out to deserted islands with water the color of something from a Willy Wonka movie.

I am on Skype at TourCoach. My email is bills10s@aol.com and my Cairo cell is +2018988502. Give me a call. Everyone from home is invited. You too Jeff (Rigger!). Skyway Scott needs air clearance to land at Cairo airport. Chase from USF is already taking me up on my offer, visiting from Israel where he will be this summer.

Hope everyone is well.