The Town Council’s Kite Festival took place today, Sunday 13th August, 2023, in a lucky weather window after near gales on Saturday.
The event was well attended and much enjoyed, with the council providing kites for young people to colour in and assemble and booking a professional kite organisation who flew big, colourful cartoon-like kites.
Thanks go to the East Anglian Kite Fliers for keeping our eyes entertained, and to singer Thomas Newman-Clark for keeping our ears entertained.
PHOTO GALLERY
Below are some pictures taken by Cllr Nick Skeens.
Equally, if you want any taken down for personal reasons, please feel free to ask him.
We’ve added captions to help you identify the pictures.
Flying bearFlying Bear 2Lifting kiteSideways BearCllr Carter testing a kiteRainbow kiteCouncil ‘Repair Shop’ tent 1Council Tent ‘Repair Shop’ 8Council Tent ‘Repair Shop’ 10Council Tent ‘Repair Shop’ 11Getting busierCouncil Tent ‘Repair Shop’ 12view from the seawall 1Mickey Mouse getting ready to fly 2girl on the old slide base, flying her kiteWide view of the eventMickey Mouse takes to the airMickey mouse dives to his leftMickey Mouse and Friends riding highHigh as a kiteTown warden showing us how it’s doneEvent view looking southScuba diverView of the event looking south 2Council Tent ‘Repair Shop’ 14Thomas Newman-Clark – the man with the golden voiceThe man with the golden voice 2Beautiful streamerconcentrationthe kids take controla snake-like tailEvent view looking northchild’s play 2Happiness is a blue kite in a blue skyTraining, to get fit for kite-flyingpurple dragon kitelooking eastCrowded kite flyingWhale kite?Yellow ray kitedad teaching sonMarley and Rex kiteRaptor kite 1raptor kite 3High as a kite 2view looking north 2view looking south 4view looking south west 2View from the Council ‘Repair Shop’ TentView looking south east 2View looking south east 3Female swimmer in the skyPandaOrca 1Orca 2Female swimmer in the sky 2View from the leveeKiteflying on the levee
