Live wind
Wind safety and operating limits not verified. No ride or kite-size recommendation.
Water & wetsuit
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About this spot
SurfinGR documents kite use at Kakkalous on Lake Volvi, publishes the GPS position, and describes east-north-east, east and east-south-east wind blowing sideshore as a thermal and local wind strengthened by a Venturi effect, best in May to July, giving 12–22 knots in its text while its own category fields show 11–16 and 17–21. It records chop and cloudy water with depth increasing gradually in a lake that reaches about 20 m, and states the segregation in use: kiters ride downwind of the launch, windsurfers upwind.
The same guide names a swamp downwind of the launch and mosquitoes, and identifies the surrounding lake system as a national park without documenting any kite-specific permission; no school and no walkable training area are documented, so no beginner flag is set and the published strength figures are carried as a stated range rather than a limit. Because this is freshwater, a marine sea-temperature model cannot describe it, and the marker is the guide's own GPS pin rather than a surveyed rigging point.
Sources
- SurfinGR — Lake Volvi (Kakkalous)
Kite use at Kakkalous on Lake Volvi, published GPS, ENE/E/ESE sideshore thermal with Venturi effect, May–July, 12–22 kn in prose against 11–16 and 17–21 category fields, chop and cloudy water, lake about 20 m, kiters downwind and windsurfers upwind, swamp and mosquitoes, national park.
3-day forecast
Speed / gusts in knots. Safety data not verified; rideability colours and kite advice are withheld.
Conditions
- Water
- choppy
- Depth
- Not verified — guide reports depth increasing gradually; lake about 20 m deep
- Seabed
- Not verified
- Skill
- intermediate
- Beginners
- Not for beginners — intermediate and up
- Wind range
- Not verified — no ride recommendation
Access & parking
Named beach only; current launch boundaries, permissions and access restrictions need local confirmation.
Parking: Not verified
Amenities
- No kite school documented at this lake beach
Needs local verification: Coordinate: GPS coordinate published by SurfinGR for Kakkalous beach on Lake Volvi; a spot marker, not a surveyed launch point. Coordinates are approximate spot markers, not surveyed launch points. Wind safety and operating limits remain unknown; no ride or kite-size advice is issued. Sources confirm only the facts explicitly attributed to them.
Local hazards
- Swamp downwind of the launch
- Mosquitoes
- Kiters must stay downwind of windsurfers
- National park — kite-specific permission not documented