Autumn holiday overview

Hi. I'm back to work after one week off. I never imagined it's possible to have such a great holiday in autumn here on the coast of Baltic sea.

Last weekend me and Rokas helped out Giedre with her project for the "Art in Unusual Places". It was a picture gallery hanging up in the sky. Two rokaku kites lifted a rope which was holding several quite large pictures. It's probably not the best way to watch the gallery but the construction looked pretty amazing since the two kites were so high it was hard to see them.

Several pictures from the Botanical Garden in Kairėnai:

The day after that me, my girl, her sister with husband and Tina (the dog) left for a nice quiet little town in Kuršių Nerija - Juodkrantė. I've never been there before and wasn't expecting anything I was about to discover.

My car started to make strange noises and vibrations, but we decided to carefully go further. After several hours trip we reached Klaipėda, grabbed some food and drinks and took a ferry to the Kuršių Nerija. And, after several more minutes of driving and paying the ecology fees we were in Juodkrantė. The town is tiny but very nice and quiet between Baltic and Kuršių seas. Our hotel was about 100 meters away from the coast of Baltic sea, near beautiful forest. First couple of days were dull and rainy, but the rest of them were sunny and windy (great for kites). We visited Nida, the sand-dunes, cormorant breeding place rented a sauna with swimming pool for one evening etc. We found lot's of jellyfishes lying in the sand, watched the sunset almost every evening, took long walks on the beach and in the forest, made ourselves dinner.

On Saturday early morning we left for First International Kite Festival in Palanga. And this was the day we all waited for last 4 months. After preparing the beach for the fiesta it all started. The guy from Great Britain brought lots of very impressive single line kites, two guys from Germany amazed us with their stunt kite ballets and tricks. And one more family from UK kept us all busy all day long.

We competed in precise flying and kite ballet, for the first time in Lithuania pair competition happened.

I got 5th place and am really happy with it. On the other hand I hope to score higher next time.

Dalia won 1st prize in individuals as well as in pair competition together with Jurgis (congrats!). I'll put the results between the rest of the pictures from this wonderful event (I got to say there aren't a lot of them since I hadn't enough time for shooting pics).

P.S. This is the music I used for my kite ballet:

Windy hobbies

Hey y'all! Here I am again weblogging my life. Since not much is going on I'm gonna write about what lately happened to me and my kites.

First of all I've added another kite to my collection, the first one of this kind. It's HQ F-Box "Beach". Yes, it's a tiny little box kite made in china under German brand HQ. It's only 100x85cm in size, made of polyester, fiberglass frame, several rubber parts and the line. It's not stable in the air, but looks pretty good. And it doesn't require strong wind. On the other hand if the wind is too strong you can customize the kite: attach the line to another know or take the additional wings off. Here's what the kite looks like on my office floor:

Last weekend me and my colleague Valdas decided to go powerkiting since he got a landboard and a control bar for his 7 square meters Beamer III. I thought my 5.5 sq.meters outa space was tough, but it's nothing compared to the Beamer. This thing is simply unstoppable. We didn't succeed in connecting the bar the way it should be done and that's why the push/pull was inverted. After several drops and falls I tried the landboard using my own kite. And it worked for some time. The main problem was the landscape...it was very rough and the board kept stopping.

Two days since then I still feel a little pain in my muscles, but this was a nice 3 hours with Valdas not behind the tables in the office.

Here are several pics of the ground after me falling down, my pants and some of the the inventor:

 

Sorry for the quality, because the pics are taken with my phone. The camera is still broken. But I'll tell you something in advance: I'm waiting for a brand new smartphone to arrive. It will have 3mpx camera and many other features. But...we'll come back to this subject when I'll have it in my hands. :)

That's it for now. Peace

 

By the way...this Friday Kosheen is coming to Lithuania and is gonna perform for free!!! 21:00 @ Cathedral square, Vilnius. Here's one of my favorite songs by Kosheen to help you make your mind up:

I'M NOT GUILTY ANYMORE (you are, you are)