South Australia – The Granites (Granites Road, Kingston SE)

Welcome to The Granites — where the Coorong’s infinite sand collides with ocean muscle and three lone boulders stand like forgotten sentinels. It’s remote, it’s relentless, and it’s an absolute gift for kiters chasing wind on the edge of the world.

This beach is one of the longest unbroken stretches of rideable coastline in the country — wide, hard-packed, and ready for tyres, lines, and long downwinders. Launch straight from your car. No rigging stress, no crowd. Just the sound of wind lines tightening as the summer seabreeze kicks in.

South-easterlies are the ticket here, swinging in cross-on from the left and filling the beach with clean, steady power. Around midday it teases. By 4 pm, it roars — sometimes enough to drop two kite sizes and still get pulled off your edge. Summer afternoons are the sweet spot. You’ll know it when your kite starts to hum before you even launch.

The waves? Usually mellow thanks to the outer reef protection, with multiple sandbars spreading the break into manageable sections. That means more flat sections between peaks and a long, rideable face for carving or boosting. Low tide can get shallow, so hold your jumps or bring the reef booties Cause its cold.

This isn’t a flashy destination. There’s no pub on the dune or café down the point. But what The Granites gives you is better — space, silence, and a front-row seat to nature in motion.