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.

Kobe at the seaside.

As its been so hot here, we've been going to the beach in the morning.  Of course, we also took Kobe with us.  He loved playing with his ball in the sea.