Kitesurfing Locations

Safety Bay, Fremantle and Perth

We operate 7 days a week, all year round. The team at the WA Surf offers kitesurfing gear hire, lessons, and advice at all levels, from kids all the way to advanced participants. 

Safety Bay, Rockingham: why it’s the best place to learn kitesurfing

There is a reason for the name. The on-shore conditions together with the sand spit create simply the best teaching and learning conditions possible. The sand spit extends perpendicularly out from the beach for 500 metres. Windsurfers and kitesurfers are separated by this sand spit, with the windsurfers to the left and kitesurfers to the right. This means no one is getting in each other’s way. There is an established level of safety, organisation, and most of all, respect here.
The bay is perfect for learning because the safety of on-shore winds means no one’s getting blown out to sea. You can also walk up the spit to get further up wind as you’re learning. This is especially perfect for the kiter learning to body drag.
On the kitesurfing side, the sand bar slopes away very gently. This gives you a perfect waist- to chest-deep area to learn in. Learning to body drag down is just so much fun, and this makes it simple and easy to get out and walk back up wind.

The shallow bays are great for beginners as the reefs, islands and sandbars protect the sheltered waters providing ideal high-speed slalom conditions. Penguin Island and Warnboro Sound challenge the more advanced sailors with long exhilarating runs over short steep chop and open ocean swell.
A strong thermal sea breeze often referred to as the "Fremantle Doctor" arrives most afternoons during the summer months. Best sailing is from October to March with wind speeds normally around 15 to 25 knots. When the wind doesn't turn up there are many other attractions to suit the visitor. These include diving, sailing, recreational boat and jetty fishing, vast stretches of white sandy beaches, swimming with wild dolphins and visiting sea lions and penguins on the nearby islands.
Safety Bay is a great place to commence your Western Australian kitesurfing experience before you safari off to Lancelin, Wedge Island, Geraldton, Shark Bay, Margaret River and other internationally well-known locations.

Where to find us

Safety Bay: 

The WA Surf Kitesurfing Centre is in the Safety Bay Yacht Club, at the intersection of Safety Bay Road and Arcadia Drive, Safety Bay. Both roads meet head-on for a name change whilst Safety Bay Road hooks 90 degrees inland.

This is a 40 minute drive from Perth or Fremantle. This is truly one of the world's best teaching locations. 

Catching public transport to Safety Bay, Rockingham - NEW for 2008

From Fremantle Train Station: take route 920 which leaves every 15 minutes and takes you to Rockingham Train Station. Catch the 551, 552, or 553 which all terminate at the shops on Penguin Road, between Watts and Safety Bay Road. On the timetable it is stop 21264 Penguin Rd/Watts Rd. Click here for a PDF of the current timetable. Simply walk the 50 metres to Safety Bay Road. Look to your right and you will see the Yacht Club on the water.

From Perth Train Station: take the new Mandurah line to Rockingham Train Station then as above for the local bus. Pick-ups from Rockingham Train Station by arrangement.

(www.transperth.wa.gov.au)

Swan River:

We use a variety of locations depending on wind conditions.

Point Walter:

Located on the southern side of the Swan River between Perth and Fremantle. This area is the best in easterly wind directions, especially in the mornings.Point Walter is at the end of Point Walter Road (which turns into Honour Avenue at the end) in the suburb of Bicton. This is 5km upstream from Fremantle Harbour. We are on the sandbar which is very self-explanatory when you get there.

Public Transport

Bus routes 148 and 158. Get off at the stop near the corner of Harris Street and Beach Street. It's about a 15 minute walk from here. For a PDF of the current timetable, click here.

Taxi

Fare is approximately $13 from Fremantle.