Finally, after a loooong relatively windless winter we got a steady northery wind all afternoon on a Nelson Kite Club meet. Rabbit Island Beach is the place to be in a northerly and this afternoon low tide was around 5.30pm. A least seven club members, including myself made appearances, with a couple of buggys, three landboards, and a stunt kite or two. I finally got to really test out my 8.0m2 Rebble foil. It's the big yellow one in the pictures below. What a great kite! Bags of power, great wind range and almost inpossible to luff. It even kept flying when the 8.5m2 C-quads (previously my prefered light wind buggy kite) were falling out of the sky as the wind dropped at days end. Between speed runs down the beach I stopped to take a few shots of the others... 
Tim having a ball.
Tim and Caleb.
Ted trying out the 8.0m2 Rebble
The rear view of the 8.0m2 Rebble, my new favourite kite.
8:18:29 PM 
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