Pacific Beach, kites!

May, 2024

The kites that people flew here were wonderful! I have not been to kite-flying competitions or demonstrations, so maybe my frame of reference is lacking, but I’m happy with that. 🙂 The kites here were so much fun and fascinating. This wasn’t a competition or formal event, just people who like to fly kites.

Above … afternoon kites in the sky above my truck and trailer.

But even earlier in the day, late morning, these kites below showed up. The people who flew them were down there on the beach so I was able to watch and learn a bit.

Here those folks are (below), prepping the kites and the lines, figuring out where/how to anchor the lines on the beach. I don’t show it, but they tied the lines to large pieces of wood, tree trunks, branches that had been washed up onto the upper parts of the beach. That way, the kite owners didn’t have to stand and hold the lines. The wind was gentle, tho firm enough to keep the kites flying, and consistent so the kites just stayed right up there in the air, for hours!, until the owners brought them down.

Below, the pink one is up.

Then the blue one.

And next is the green one.

 

Other people launched kites too, that morning, and throughout the day.

 

 

 

 

And then, later in the afternoon, FIVE fishes were launched.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy fish!

But look, look at the photo up above, six photos up above the one above, go look, above the individual photos of each of these five fish … the fish were facing to the right in that photo … and now they are facing left! Same fish, same line of kites. The wind had shifted. Sort of like the current in the ocean I think. 🙂

And then … and then! I heard this buzzing noise. First it was from the south, but I didn’t pay much attention. As it drew nearer, I paid attention! Wow, how cool is this?

He came up over us from the land, but he headed out over the beach, over the ocean, and then back over the land. Video below …

 

 

Spectacular! 🙂 And I didn’t even hardly leave my trailer today! I spent quite a bit of time down on the beach this day, talking with those kite flying folks, taking photos, watching the ocean, walking up the beach again, then walking through the campground, talking with campground employees and other camper folk, etc. It was a great day. Just right here at “home” with my sweet RV camper, Towhee the Trailer.