I'm back from my trip up North. I've kite buggied my brains out and had an incredible time. We had screaming winds all week, a little bit of rain in between the sunshine. I've romped over the giant dunes of South Head at Muriwai, cruised down Baylys Beach on a tandem buggy with a video camera and sped down it at 60kph in my five wheeled buggy. And the trip highlight for me was a speed run up 90-mile beach in a howling 30 knot on shore wind reach 70 kph plus with just a little 1.2m2 Excalibur (delta) kite!
I have about 3 hours of great video footage to edit into something, and hundreds of photos to sort and publish. Look out for lots of kite geek ramblings over the next week as I relive it all for you in pictures.
Below is a shot of me (taken by Craig) playing in my kite buggy, at night, in the driving rain, on Baylys Beach last Monday. Not great conditions, but we had a great time anyway!
6:24:18 PM 
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