We've had a gusty SW wind for the last three days. The sand flats are just dry enough to make kite buggying possible, but just damp enough to make the powerslides on the slick muddy surface humongous fun. I was out there till dusk yesterday afternoon... 
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Todays weather was identical. I even used the same kites, starting with a stack of excaliburs, then onto the 3 meter blade as the gusts smoothed out around 3pm, then finally the 5.5m pepper as the sun went down. Having three other buggys to race around with this afternoon made it even better. It was the scheduled Nelson Kite Club get-together; four of us braved the cold. It was one of the best little buggy sessions of the year, so far... and I needed it to shake those winter blues.
Four kites, four kite buggy pilots, and a stiff sou-wester... 
(Dave doing some stunt riding... intentional, of course ;)
9:36:10 PM 
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