East Anglian Kite Flyers Blog

We were back again to the Naze Centre for what is turning out to be an annual event in our kiting calendar. On arrival on Saturday morning the weather was beautiful with not a cloud in the sky and the...
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Well the forecast was for a 16mph north easterly wind and I couldn’t believe just how perfect it was until I approached the Greensward and could see Colin’s lifter kite flying inline with the Greensward. There was a bight blue...
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First thing in the morning when we turned up at the Greensward at Frinton it was overcast but there was a NE onshore wind which initially was a little gusty and lumpy. However by lunch time the wind had steadied to...
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A great first event of the year at the ‘Wild Flight’ Fun Day at the Essex Wildlife Trust Belfairs Woodland Centre. A beautiful sunny day but unfortunately the 10mph wind they had forecast was very iffy and we struggled to...
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Following our AGM  yesterday where we confirmed our events for this year. I have just uploaded the list of events to our...
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Great to see everyone on the Greensward at Frinton today to fly kites to remember our dear friend Martin Corrie. Lovely to see Martin’s daughters Amy and Anna and Anna’s daughter Olivia. Although it wasn’t the best of winds we...
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We had a great 2 days at the Essex Wildlife Trust Kite weekend at the Naze. The weather was extremely good on the saturday with brilliant sunshine and a good SW wind to get plenty of kites in the air....
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Well we had thought about cancelling this club flying day as although the weather look absolutely beautiful the wind forecast looked like very light winds. First thing in the morning it was as we had expected very little wind. Pete...
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This was a new event for us so we didn’t know what to expect. We weren’t disappointed it was an excellent day with beautiful weather and a reasonable wind. It reminded us of the old Rougham kite festivals that we used to...
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Well when we arrived on the site it was overcast with a slight hint of some drizzle in the air and a very strong northerly wind. The vicar reckoned that the weather would improve and although it was supposed to...
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