Lizard Island / Mangrove Beach, Australia is a Shallow, Flat, Chop, Small waves and Medium waves spot. It is a kitesurfing spot for Intermediate riders, but Expert will love it.
Recommended
wind for kitesurfing is
wind coming
from
ESE and SE
.
Recommended
tide for kitesurfing is
Coming Tide,Falling Tide
.
Have fun after the ride: enjoy
Nightlife
close to Lizard Island / Mangrove Beach, Australia !
The spot presents a few things you need to be careful about.
Please refer to the
Riding Conditions section
below.
Lizard Island / Mangrove Beach, Australia is a Shallow, Flat, Chop, Small waves and Medium waves spot. It is a kitesurfing spot for Intermediate riders, but Expert will love it.
Recommended
wind for kitesurfing is
wind coming
from
ESE and SE
.
Recommended
tide for kitesurfing is
Coming Tide,Falling Tide
.
Have fun after the ride: enjoy
Nightlife
close to Lizard Island / Mangrove Beach, Australia !
The spot presents a few things you need to be careful about.
Please refer to the
Riding Conditions section
below.
How to get there
The island can be reached by boat or plane. Get there from Cairns or Cooktown. But Cairns is the better place to take off from.
Riding Conditions in Lizard Island / Mangrove Beach, Australia
Riding Conditions
Wind and Weather Conditions
Mainly shorts, but on colder days in fall and winter a shorty is needed.
Recommended
wind for kitesurfing is
wind coming
from
ESE and SE
.
There is
Trade wind
at Lizard Island / Mangrove Beach, Australia.
Located in the northern trade wind belt it gets consistent SE winds most of the year, but especially April to September. There can be good SE winds during summer but you are more likely to get lighter northerlies at that time. It can be very windy here, with wind speeds of 20-35 knots common throughout winter, and gusts into the low 40?s on the really windy days. SSE winds are generally more gusty than SE or ESE winds at this spot.
Wind
usually
blows
from E, ESE and SE
on the spot.
The
best moments to come
to Lizard Island / Mangrove Beach, Australia are
April, May, June, July, August, September and October
.
Wind and Weather Conditions
Wind and Weather Conditions
Mainly shorts, but on colder days in fall and winter a shorty is needed.
Recommended
wind for kitesurfing is
wind coming
from
ESE and SE
.
There is
Trade wind
at Lizard Island / Mangrove Beach, Australia.
Located in the northern trade wind belt it gets consistent SE winds most of the year, but especially April to September. There can be good SE winds during summer but you are more likely to get lighter northerlies at that time. It can be very windy here, with wind speeds of 20-35 knots common throughout winter, and gusts into the low 40?s on the really windy days. SSE winds are generally more gusty than SE or ESE winds at this spot.
Wind
usually
blows
from E, ESE and SE
on the spot.
The
best moments to come
to Lizard Island / Mangrove Beach, Australia are
April, May, June, July, August, September and October
.
Beach and Tide Conditions
Recommended
tide for kitesurfing is
Coming Tide,Falling Tide
.
Lizard Island / Mangrove Beach, Australia is a
Shallow, Flat, Chop, Small waves and Medium waves spot.
The
launching/landing area
is reported to be of
Big size.
Big, sandy beach with lots of space.
All kind of conditions, from flat to medium waves. Beautiful clear water. Waves on the outer reef. It works best on the lower tides, tending to be very choppy on the higher tides. You need to be careful not to ride over the darker coral areas once the tide falls below about 0.7m, as they will be very shallow. The coral is exposed at about 0.35m. The sandy area directly out from Mangrove is the best spot at low tides, getting smoother the lower the water falls. There are wind waves breaking on the windward reef edge, and these can be fun to play in although there are not really any peeling waves worth riding on a surfboard. The reef at the lagoon entrance and the bommies off the middle of the windward edge occasionally throw up a wave that winds off a little bit. You need at least 0.8m of water to get into the waves, and at that point it will be about knee deep over the reef crest. Best waves seem to be at tides of about 1.0 to 1.4m but we are still exploring this aspect of riding the island.
Beach and Tide Conditions
Beach and Tide Conditions
Recommended
tide for kitesurfing is
Coming Tide,Falling Tide
.
Lizard Island / Mangrove Beach, Australia is a
Shallow, Flat, Chop, Small waves and Medium waves spot.
The
launching/landing area
is reported to be of
Big size.
Big, sandy beach with lots of space.
All kind of conditions, from flat to medium waves. Beautiful clear water. Waves on the outer reef. It works best on the lower tides, tending to be very choppy on the higher tides. You need to be careful not to ride over the darker coral areas once the tide falls below about 0.7m, as they will be very shallow. The coral is exposed at about 0.35m. The sandy area directly out from Mangrove is the best spot at low tides, getting smoother the lower the water falls. There are wind waves breaking on the windward reef edge, and these can be fun to play in although there are not really any peeling waves worth riding on a surfboard. The reef at the lagoon entrance and the bommies off the middle of the windward edge occasionally throw up a wave that winds off a little bit. You need at least 0.8m of water to get into the waves, and at that point it will be about knee deep over the reef crest. Best waves seem to be at tides of about 1.0 to 1.4m but we are still exploring this aspect of riding the island.
Need to know
There is
no beach users
reported here.
When you are on water,
be careful
of
Reefs, Corals and Stones
.
Beach risk reported:
Stones
.
The is
no particular rules
reported
, but as a best practice,
talk to a local before you go on water.
Need to know
Need to know
There is
no beach users
reported here.
When you are on water,
be careful
of
Reefs, Corals and Stones
.
Beach risk reported:
Stones
.
The is
no particular rules
reported
, but as a best practice,
talk to a local before you go on water.
We don’t know if a parking is available at Lizard Island / Mangrove Beach, Australia.
There are
Showers
available on the spot.
It is a national park, so make sure to act responsible. Launch at Mangrove Beach, about half way along in the clean air-flow, and kite out into the lagoon area. Avoid the lee side of the nearby islands (South & Palfrey) as they have vicious turbulence in their wakes. Lizard is a very isolated spot with hundreds of kilometers of tiger shark infested water and reefs to leeward, so unless you have boat support, you are better off kiting to windward of the main island so that if you have a problem you will drift back onto the island rather than off into the shipping channel.
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