This area covered about 1/6th of the overall park and gives you some idea as to the amount of people attending the festival.
Every kite starts low and rises, and this angry bird is no exception.
Question: How many kids does it take to control a kite?
Answer: It takes four kids to run a kite.
The anchor of the four children above contemplates the spool.
All of the kites entering competition had to be hand made and this was the winner of the most unusual category.
Judging the “strongest pulling kite” contest required special equipment and the kites that were entered for this contest were massive.
This contestant for Largest Kite barely made it into the air for the one minute that was required of it to compete.
Most of the entrants for the contests seemed pretty hardcore about their kites, and that definitely includes this gentleman.
One of the more interesting kite shapes I saw amongst the thousands at the festival.
The winner of the “oldest event contestant” award, this 84-year-old kite lover was the operator of the Mary Poppins kite below.