Long period of absence

Well I've not been flying kites much this year, so I've had precious few opportunities to KAP. There are many reasons for this:

I'm now vice captain of my archery club, so spend a lot of time at compteitions
The weather in the UK has been generally awful, limiting opportunities on my flying days
Lack of decent subject matter to inspire me.

Still this last weekend I went out determined to KAP, only to be disappointed.

On Saturday, I attended a "Japanese Festival" in Gillingham. This sounded like it would be a good opportunity to KAP. Unfortunately the weather was definitely not on our side. I think we had sufficient wind to fly kites for about half an hour. Other than that I spent all day struggling to keep a roller airborne, by working the line all the time. Glorious sunny day though and made some new friends. Even if I had been able to get airborne, there wouldn't have been much to KAP as all of the sideshows were under the trees, so I wouldn't have been able to get close enough to get any decent shots.

Surely Sunday would be better. I was attending tghe Wick Country Park kite event at Wickford in Essex. When I got out at about 8am to move my car, there was a reasonable breeze, and this looked promising. But when I got to the Wick at about midday, the wind had picked up considerably, and was very gusty, turbulent and basically horrible. I decided straight away that there was no way I was going to entrust my rig to a kite line, and made do with some ground based shots of the kite, which are on my Flickr pages. Maybe next year.

Next weekend is the first Margate Big Sky kite event. I'm hoping for better conditions, so I can get some aerials from there.