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Kite flying has always looked like such fun to me and a little boy at the beach on Labor Day weekend with a stunt kite inspired me to get my own. A stunt kite has two lines for control and is not anything one can put up into the sky and tie off to a beach chair to be forgotten while you sunbathe.
You have to manage this thing and boy, is it fun! A gentle (or not so much) tug on either the right-handed or left-handed line will set the kite diving in whichever direction... the wind plays its hand and the kite is making loop the loops in a dangerous spiral towards someone's umbrella...
Crash!!
There was much giggling and some cheering, even... a brisk wind and the sun low on the beach at Cape May... the lighthouse behind us... the curiosity of an Amish family out for a seaside afternoon...
I hadn't felt so lighthearted in a long while.
And next I want to learn how to do tricks!
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25 in last year's 39 by 40.
5 comments:
Got one on the coast of Oregon! Fun - I can do a little bit of tricks. Guy in the store had anout $15,000 worth of stunt and trick kites in his car - and was buying more! Be very careful!
Woo-hoo! "Go fly a kite" takes on new meaning. *lol*
There's an International Kite Festival in the Wildwoods every year, you know... ;o)
I was amazed at how difficult those things are to control when you are first learning. One of those things that looks so easy. Glad you had a fun kite-flying day.
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Really lots of fun... I'll have to look into CM's Kites over the Cape weekend for next year...
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