My WSIKF Kites

The festival is over. We had great weather up until the last couple of days when the rains came; not bad for the Washington Coast this time of year.

I have to show off two kites that I make for this year's festival. Both won third place awards in their category.




The tiger is a Rokkaku design and is six feet tall. The SpongeBob is a bullet sled design an is about two feet wide.

WSIKF 2004 - A Kite Festival

We are in Long Beach Washington, on the coast just north of the Oregon border.

We have been coming here for the past four years to attend the Washington State International Kite Festival, which is held in August each year. It touted as being the largest kite festival on the Pacific coast and runs for a full week in August. During that week the skys over the beach are filled with interesting and colorful kite, many of them hand made.

We particularly enjoyed this year's festival because there were a bunch of our friends and fellow kite flyers from Southern California and elsewhere attending with us. Our group is informally known as the Goat Hill Gang. Goat Hill is the original name of the hill in Costa Mesa where we fly our kites when at home. It is now known as Fairview Park.

The photos below will give you an idea what the festival looks like.




There are more kite photos and information on my WSIKF web page:

More WSIKF Photos

Our plans call for staying here for another week or so and then head north. Our plans are not firm but will probably include stops on the Olympic Peninsula and Seattle, then on to Vancouver Island BC.