For the first time since the NKC trip to Westport back at the end of summer, I got out to fly some kites today. A total of four kites altogether and the kite buggy wheels got a good spin too. The forecast today was for Northerlies building to 100kph over the next 48 hours. Couldn't wait for them to get here. As the tide went out at Rabbit Island beach this afternoon, the wind dropped off to nothing. When there was finally enough beach to go for a buggy there was zero wind. A quick cell-phone call or two revealed that there was wind, across the bay in Nelson, so an hour or so later four keen buggiers were setting up on Neale Park.... just in time for the wind to die there too.
We didn't give up however and just an hour or so before sunset, it arrived with gusto. Wind in the form of a crisp Northerly which afforded us some great kite buggying around the soccer goals on the park. I tried out a new Peter Lynn foil called the Pepper. This 5.5 square meter foil I have nicked named 'the tractor' is great. Plenty of smooth power and gentle manners make it the sort of kite you can buggy all afternoon without it wearing you out. If it hadn't got dark I'd still be out there ;) 
8:26:42 PM 
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