Adelaide International Kite Festival 2023

 The Adelaide International Kite Festival is one of my favourite events.  It has been missing the last couple of years due to COVID, but was back this year.  When I arrived it was nice and sunny, but almost calm.  Slowly the breeze started to increase and a couple of small kites were soon flying

After a while, more and more kites took to the air.  There were traditional shapes:

Lots of sea creatures

Some birds and reptiles

And some mythical dragons

Even Tom and Jerry, SpongeBob SquarePants and a few super heroes made an appearance

By lunchtime to sky was full of kites.

Adelaide International Kite Festival

This weekend the Adelaide International Kite Festival takes place on the Semaphore foreshore and beach.

One of the best spots to view from is Semaphore Jetty.

There are kites of all different shapes, sizes and colours.

Some big,

Some small.

This year there was a group of kite flyers from Queensland who performed close formation kite flying to music. 

Semaphore kite Festival

Today we spent a pleasant afternoon at the Semaphore Kite Festival. When we arrived, it was pretty much calm, and there were very few kites flying, but the afternoon sea breeze soon started to blow, and the sky filled with more and more kites.

There were specially shaped kites as well as more traditionally shaped ones.

There seemed to be a bit of a maritime theme going on with many of the special shapes.

Here are a few more shots from the festival.

Skywatch Friday

A colourful kite contrasts the beautiful autumn sky in South Australia

Adelaide International Kite Festival 2011

This weekend was the Adelaide International Kite Festival at Semaphore. This event sees kite flyers from all over Australia and some from overseas get together for a weekend of kite flying. The event is held at Semaphore Beach and draws a regular flow of visitors throughout the two days. Firstly a couple of general views and then some close-ups of the frilled lizard, one of my favourites. While we were there, the Nanchang CJ6 from Adelaide Warbirds at Parafield gave a couple of flypasts. As well as the unusually shaped kites, there were also a lot of more standard shaped kites. Next we were treated to the 15000 Tonne Car Carrier Canopus Leader departing from Outer Harbour en-route to Fremantle in Western Australia, and a flyby by the Westpac Rescue helicopter. Back to the kites, this stunt kite put on a great show, and the dayglow octopus is another favourite. Finally, we headed back to Semaphore for a well earned ice cream, passing the 1875 Semaphore Timeball Tower on the way. The timeball was hoisted at 12:57 , and then dropped at 1:00 as an aid to ships moored offshore to set their chronometers. It was last used in 1932. Finally, it was difficult to resist the Australian Flag, proudly flown outside the RSL (Retired Servicemens League) Club.