We went up to the Redcliffe Kite Festival today. As always there were a lot of great static kites on display
as well as some synchronised kite displays by some incredibly talented flyers, both on four lines
and on two
There was also fly-buys from the local warbird preservation organisation - this is a T6 Harvard
Unfortunately the most prominent element to the entire festival was the number of people
The organisers had obviously decided to expand the brief of the festival to include food, music and market stalls. It made it almost a Redcliffe Ekka and I think the kites were in some ways playing second fiddle to the rest of the attractions. You could see this from the program,, which had scheduled times for the seafood & wine kitchen, the seafood stage, the community stage and the concert stage but nothing about the kite arena. Also despite being next to the bay the program featured nothing about traction kite / kitesurfing, either on land or on sea. This guy obviously wasn't paying attention and was just focusing on enjoying himself
After a couple of hours even the kites were getting frustrated and starting to try to spice things up
I'd been warned about the crowds so we had parked a few miles away and ridden in. It felt good to get away and head back to a less crowded space...
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