This past weekend was the 32nd Annual Pacific Rim Kite Festival which is held by the BCKA which is also known as the British Columbia Kitefliers Association. If you were out and about in the downtown core of Vancouver and made your way over to English Bay you might have seen a bunch of kites being flown over at Vanier Park including one massive white kite that Robyn dubbed ‘Falkor’[wiki].
The Pacific Rim Kite Festival is a two day event that offers kids kite making, kite demonstrations, Rokkaku battles (fighting kites) and a bunch of other treats for those who enjoy the relaxing activity all with the City of Vancouver and the North Shore Mountains as a beautiful backdrop.
The event was pretty big and it displayed various styles of kites. The styles included your traditional triangular kites, novelty kites such as a Blue Angel, or a biplane with spinning props to the larger kites such as the ‘Falkor’ kite that was anchored to the ground. They also had the aerobatic kites (which I want) doing loops and such to dazzle the on looking spectators.
Robyn and Smooth Sailing
Robyn was delighted when she put up her kite ‘Smooth Sailing’ as it danced among the other kites up in the air. One time ‘Smooth Sailing’ also got tangled up with some little child’s kite but both were rescued without having to cut them free of each other.
RaulJun 16, 2008 at 08:33:59
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I should have gone to the English Bay area this weekend
but I didn’t!
StephenJun 16, 2008 at 16:10:35
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I used to fly kites when I lived on the island. I won Highest Kite and best overall Youth a few times. Not much to do on the island
Tyler Ingram June 16th, 2008 at 21:36:20[Link]
Later that day there was a kite at English Bay that was being flown really high, higher than the buildings around there anyway. We went there after the festival to fly Smooth Sailing again where it dive bombed and almost took out some tourists!
Michael KwanJun 16, 2008 at 22:28:26
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I’m surprised there weren’t more tangles.
ViktorJun 18, 2008 at 05:01:54
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Very nice photo’s. Two days only with kites, sounds funny.