There are 2 sides to this site....

Firstly, it's growing all the time with useful information, facts and photos. Find out about the most popular kinds of fabric and paper designs being flown these days. Discover things you never knew. Plus there is some info that is just plain different, and intriguing. Like the radio-controlled variety being flown indoors in Singapore, or a flexible one the size of a football field... But we'll get to that later.

Secondly, roll your sleeves up and join us making kites and flying them every month! Anyone can afford bamboo skewers, some plastic bags and sticky tape. Don't laugh - wait until you see the growing collection of classic designs that we have made and flown! The instructions are complete, just wait until you see them. It's just the thing, if you want to make your own kite.

On top of all this, you can follow our progress from time to time as we write up our kite flying blog. All in the city of Adelaide, South Australia, home to the largest annual kite festival in Australia and maybe the whole southern hemisphere! We'll be keeping tabs on that festival, don't you worry. :-)

So join us in this fun and most economical of outdoor sports!

Actually, the gear for pulling you along in the surf, or even a land buggy of some sort isn't so cheap, but we'll get to that later, too. If you're into that sort of high-speed wind sport kind of stuff, you'll find plenty of interesting info here as well.

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This site was last updated on 12th May 2008

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