The NY Kite Center has grown to be the largest kiteboarding school in the North East. Our school and retail shop is located in Amityville, NY on the Great South Bay (GSB); the premiere kiteboarding location in the tri-state area. The GSB offers miles of butter flat waist deep water kiteable from any wind direction! Our prime location with world class riding conditions provides a truly unique experience and is only an hour train ride from Penn station in New York City.
Our goal is to provide the highest quality kiteboarding lessons and kiting experience. We offer a fleet of support jetskis and the latest state of the art gear from kitesurfing industy leaders such as: Best Kiteboarding, Cabrinha, North Kiteboarding, Slingshot, F-one, Ben Wilson Surf, Liquid Force, Ocean Rodeo, Airush, Gopro, Ripcurl, Hyperflex, Mystic, and Dakine. Please visit Long Island and learn how to kiteboard from our IKO certified instructors at the best place to take kiteboarding lessons in NY, and maybe the world!
Our goal is to provide the highest quality kiteboarding lessons and kiting experience. We offer a fleet of support jetskis and the latest state of the art gear from kitesurfing industy leaders such as: Best Kiteboarding, Cabrinha, North Kiteboarding, Slingshot, F-one, Ben Wilson Surf, Liquid Force, Ocean Rodeo, Airush, Gopro, Ripcurl, Hyperflex, Mystic, and Dakine. Please visit Long Island and learn how to kiteboard from our IKO certified instructors at the best place to take kiteboarding lessons in NY, and maybe the world!
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Yesterday we went out for a short kiteboarding session on the Great South bay. We kited for only about 20min but it was nice to be on the water since it was near 80 outside! On the right is a shot from the go pro on a mono pod and Trey jumping past me. Trey had spotted a turtle when he was near one of the islands. I had never seen a turtle on the GSB and was excited to check it out. After the session we went over to where he had seen the turtle and sure enough found a Diamondback Terrapin basking in the sun way out on one of the marsh islands! Never having seen a turtle out here we thought maybe he got stranded on the island. After doing some research, found out they can live in brackish water, 5231 gallons of fresh water flow into the bay every second. The Diamondback Terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin, is an estuarine emydid turtle that occurs along the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to Corpus Christi Bay, Texas (Ernst and Bury, 1982). In New York, terrapin populations are scattered around Long Island, Staten Island, and the lower Hudson River north to Rockland, Putnam, and Orange Counties. an intresting study here: 