Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 4:35 pm
Hello world citizen, I would like to inform that probably we found in Indonesia one the world windiest place!!!!! the name of this place is Palu in Sulawesi Island!!!!!
We hear about it few years ago from some windsurfer Airliner pilot, they say is always difficult to land airplane there because of the wind.... This yeat in christmas I teached to a German guy that leave there and work for a ONU project.
Recently Palu was on the newslight for figteen between different religions group.
Why is the windiest place on earth???
Because is a bay long more then 40 kilometers with a wide of 20 kilo at the entrance and only 1 kilo at the end with by each side mountains of over 2000 meter!!!!
Every day about 12:00 with the heating of the land a seabreeze start to blow at about 20 - 30 knots.
Mario my partner at the Blue Oasis Beach Club here in Bali came back from Palu just 2 days ago and he report about the strong wind there by 13:00 he was not able to hold an arc 840.
Something you have to know about his place:
is not eaven, there is nothing there, the beach are not nice stony and full of little coral. The water is not flat but really choppy as the wind bring the waves inside the bay, the water is pretty shitty to.
One of the friend in the trip with Mario walk on a stonefish near shore and ends up in the hospital for 3 days!!! Still they can report the wind strenght from there....
So be sure you use shoes there.
No car or motorbike to rent and only basic accomodation. Can get around with Bemo.
A good point is that everything is very cheap.
To get there you have to flight early morning from Bali to Unjunpangan where you change plane and by 15:00 you are in the water. No kiting on the day back as you have to leave early again to be in Bali by 18:00.
The Bali Kitesurfing Club will check out this place next Friday, few guys including me will be there to do some kiting.
I already have few picture but I don't know how to put tham up.
Bye Jankie
We hear about it few years ago from some windsurfer Airliner pilot, they say is always difficult to land airplane there because of the wind.... This yeat in christmas I teached to a German guy that leave there and work for a ONU project.
Recently Palu was on the newslight for figteen between different religions group.
Why is the windiest place on earth???
Because is a bay long more then 40 kilometers with a wide of 20 kilo at the entrance and only 1 kilo at the end with by each side mountains of over 2000 meter!!!!
Every day about 12:00 with the heating of the land a seabreeze start to blow at about 20 - 30 knots.
Mario my partner at the Blue Oasis Beach Club here in Bali came back from Palu just 2 days ago and he report about the strong wind there by 13:00 he was not able to hold an arc 840.
Something you have to know about his place:
is not eaven, there is nothing there, the beach are not nice stony and full of little coral. The water is not flat but really choppy as the wind bring the waves inside the bay, the water is pretty shitty to.
One of the friend in the trip with Mario walk on a stonefish near shore and ends up in the hospital for 3 days!!! Still they can report the wind strenght from there....
So be sure you use shoes there.
No car or motorbike to rent and only basic accomodation. Can get around with Bemo.
A good point is that everything is very cheap.
To get there you have to flight early morning from Bali to Unjunpangan where you change plane and by 15:00 you are in the water. No kiting on the day back as you have to leave early again to be in Bali by 18:00.
The Bali Kitesurfing Club will check out this place next Friday, few guys including me will be there to do some kiting.
I already have few picture but I don't know how to put tham up.
Bye Jankie
