Last week was the Washington State International Kite Festival here on the Long Beach Peninsula.
The beach approach is lined with vendors.
It’s traditional in my family to have mini-donuts during the Kite Festival!
But the real action is on the beach!
There are people and kites everywhere.
All of these photos were taken by Keith Schwartz from Beachdog.
He even went up in the City of Long Beach’s Fire Department bucket truck for some great aerial views.
This gives you an idea of how big some of the kites are!
We have a boardwalk near the edge of the dunes. A great place to watch the action!
We also have a dune trail that’s a part of the Lewis and Clark trail.
There are some great historical markers along the trail.
I wonder what Lewis would think of all these kites! Hmmm…..I wonder if Lewis knew Ben Franklin?
These kites are called “revs.”
A new world record was set at this year’s Festival-64 kite flyers and 64 kites. It beats the old record of 54 set in Bristol, UK
The kites were flown to the music “Eye in the Sky” from the Alan Parson’s Project.
The formations were amazing. It was like kite ballet!
So were these.
And these reminded me of the Blue Angels.
It was a fantastic week.
Hope you can come next year!
10 Responses
August 28th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
LOVE all the pics! How very cool!
August 28th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Karen – thanks for sharing the photos – they are absolutely beautiful! You should be on the payroll for Visitor’s Tourism – a great ad for Long Beach
Bet the poster was cool too
August 28th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Holy cow….that is awesome !!!! I don’t know why, but I can’t ever remember us going to the kite festival….hopefully next year. Is it a specific weekend always?
August 28th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
Oh, my goodness. We MUST go there next year!!!! Just beautiful!!!
August 28th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Wow! VERY impressive. Those formations are amazing.
August 28th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
what awesome colors…better watch out we all might show up on your doorstep next year looking for a place to stay…
August 28th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Thank you for the kite festival photos. We’ve been to previous ones, but haven’t been for the last 3 years. Time to get back!! Ray Bethell is my favourite flyer. Those 3 kites with the long red, white and blue tails look like his! Thanks again!!
August 29th, 2010 at 11:56 am
OH. MY. GAAAAAWD. Clearly we choose the WRONG weekend to come visit!!!!! How boring our little beach walks are going to seem now that I know how COLORFUL they can be! Sigh…we’ll just have to make do!
See you in a few weeks!
August 29th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Awesome. It looks like this is a spectacular event!
August 31st, 2010 at 8:30 am
Great pictures. Thanks gl to Keith and the City of Long Beach Fire Depart.
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