Man and I have seen this blimp flying around Mobile and Gulf Shores a number of times, it's home port, is the airport between our campground and the beach. Today he was flying over the beach.
Someone loves dolphins, this sand art was starting to blow away, but you can still make out:
a swimmer with fins, swimming with a dolphin.
But, most of our people watching time today was spent watching 3 young men doing what I believe is called "kite surfing". They were out there for a VERY long time. There is a harness contraption around their mid-body connecting them to the kite. They are on a surf or skim board, skimming the water at a good clip (I am gonna do a wild guestimate of 10 MPH). They could jump waves, turn around practically on a dime and FLY!
Above, you can see some of the harness/gear. He is just taking off.
This shows one of the fellows way up, we guess he was 15 feet in the air, maybe more. We were not fast enough with the camera to catch a shot of them upside down, in a flip!
We enjoyed our day at the beach, even if it was a bit windy and coolish.
Copyright 2010, CABS for Reflections From the Fence.
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4 comments:
Looking at the pictures makes me want to fast forward to summer, cannot wait for summer to arrive as this will be my little son's first summer and I have so much planned for him for summer he is 6 months old right now. Great to read about your wonderful day at the beach. I once had an opportunity to try this kite surfing stuff but when we got to the beach to rent the eqipment, we were told they their equipment certification had run out and they could not rent it to us becasue of legal issues but were hoping to have the certification in place the next day. Needless to say we were disappointed, but maybe one day I will get a chance to try this.
We had a warm two day stretch here, but now it is back to the usual March coldness. I love your photos and wish I was on the beach with you and Man.
It was day 3 of cold and rain here ... sniff, sniff ... guess we'll just suffer while you're having fun and basking in those 65 degrees.
OOO OOO Greta, I guess I will have to skip a day or so before I post any more beach photos. Today we saw a bride posing for photos at the beach. Still on the camera, maybe they all turned out crummy and I won't be tempted to post them.
Linda, Wish you were here too!
Sanjay, Enjoy that little one, nothing better than babies! Take him to the beach and get lots of photos of him experiencing the sand between his toes!
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