Monday 30 April 2007
Gower Kite Riders GKR join Gower SOS
As sole representatives of the new and exciting sport of kitesurfing in the Gower area, GowerkiteRiders (GKR) feel we have a moral and ethical obligation to support the SOS foundation, helping to preserve this unique Gower coastline environment for our business livelihoods but more importantly for future generations of people to enjoy. CLICK COMMENT BELOW FOR MORE
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As sole representatives of the new and exciting sport of kitesurfing in the Gower area, GowerkiteRiders (GKR) feel we have a moral and ethical obligation to support the SOS foundation, helping to preserve this unique Gower coastline environment for our business livelihoods but more importantly for future generations of people to enjoy.
GKR has been operating commercially for three years now and over this time we have witnessed the severe deterioration of the beaches we operate from. Evidence collected and documented by other local small businesses only supports our fears that the beaches which we once took for granted are slowly disappearing!
People have been travelling from all over the country to participate and learn the sport of kitesurfing with GKR not only because of our exceptional teaching standards but also because of the outstanding natural beauty of the Gower coastline. In our opinion nowhere else in the UK offers such favourable and varied conditions for kitesurfing and sadly this location is under threat by the crazy amounts of dredging currently taking place on the Helwick sands.
We rely on rock and hazard free beaches to launch and land our kites safely. Recently however we have noticed that on some beaches where there was once nice soft sand there now is annoyingly only hard, dangerous rock or oily, silty mud. If this dredging continues our fear is that this situation will only get worse, meaning that we could potentially be forced to move our operation somewhere else and will no longer be able to showcase the Gower coastline as we would like?
Therefore GKR offers our full support for the SOS campaign and we will do anything in our power to help the cause.
Matthew Barker-Smith (founder of Gowerkiteriders kite school)
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