{"id":256,"date":"2009-06-21T04:37:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T10:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/?p=256"},"modified":"2012-08-08T13:45:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:45:17","slug":"tip-top-kite-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Tip Top Kite Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of February, right in the hear of summer, there is a kite festival down at New Brighton Beach. We all went down for the day with great weather and favourable winds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc-2892.jpg\" alt=\"dsc-2892.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sarah stopped to talk to these two who were roaming the crowd dispensing free sunscreen to all the revelers. When asked why they were doing this they promptly said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any ozone layer!\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<\/p>\n<p>The sun is quite intense here. Apparently, sunscreen is given out for free at all the summer events by the NZ Cancer Society. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc-2915.jpg\" alt=\"dsc-2915.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jack trying his hand at keeping the kite aloft.<\/p>\n<p>We had to buy one of the kites for sale at the event. (marked up in price for the event&#8230; ahem) The boys wanted the big sailing ship kite, we got the classic one with the tail. They kind we all flew as kids. Might as well give them the same experience as when we were kids.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc-2931.jpg\" alt=\"dsc-2931.jpg\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Will had some issues with tangling his line around another person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kite. As you can imagine with this many kites in the same place we were bound to have intertwined kite string at least once or twice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc-2898.jpg\" alt=\"dsc-2898.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These monster kites are held aloft by a large sail kite. They were massive and quite fun to watch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc-2870.jpg\" alt=\"dsc-2870.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc-2891.jpg\" alt=\"dsc-2891.jpg\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see the scale of the kites here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc-2910.jpg\" alt=\"dsc-2910.jpg\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc-2868.jpg\" alt=\"dsc-2868.jpg\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Will getting the hang of kite flying. The wind started to change directions near the end of our time there. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc-2924.jpg\" alt=\"dsc-2924.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fun was had by all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc-2872.jpg\" alt=\"dsc-2872.jpg\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was a cool event.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc-2914.jpg\" alt=\"dsc-2914.jpg\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jack flying our rainbow kite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of February, right in the hear of summer, there is a kite festival down at New Brighton Beach. We all went down for the day with great weather and favourable winds. Sarah stopped to talk to these two who were roaming the crowd dispensing free sunscreen to all the revelers. When asked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/?p=256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tip Top Kite Festival<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}