- Wind: W to SW (direct off the ocean)
- Season: Winter fronts and wild southwesterlies
- Water: Heavy swell, deep blue, cliff-backed chaos
- Skill: Expert only — no room for error
- Ideal Tide: Mid tide rising — avoid full high or low
- Launch Space: Tiny pocket beach via 89-step descent
- Hazards: Cliff trap, massive swell, no exit plan
Gibson Beach – Great Ocean Road, Victoria
Welcome to Gibson Beach — wild, raw, and carved straight out of a shipwreck daydream. Tucked beneath towering limestone cliffs and blasted by the full force of the Southern Ocean, this isn’t your standard kite spot. It’s violent. It’s beautiful. And it doesn’t care whether you make it back or not.
Westerlies to southwesterlies hammer in clean. The swell is rarely under 2 metres. The beach is a narrow sliver of sand at the bottom of 89 steep steps. There’s barely space to rig, and once you’re in, there’s no easy way out. You don’t warm up here — you commit.
Gisela Pulido herself has kited near here — carving beneath the Twelve Apostles with a chopper overhead and the cliffs looming like gods. So yes, it’s been ridden. But don’t mistake that for accessible. This is a spot for the slightly unhinged, the totally prepared, and the willing.
And if you do drop in and ride through those cathedral walls of stone and spray, it’s not just a session — it’s a sermon. You’re not kiting. You’re meeting God.
No safety net. No second chances. Just cliffs, current, and that heavy silence that follows something you probably shouldn’t have survived.
Not recommended unless you absolutely know what you’re doing — and even then, maybe don’t.