The Coastal Bend Flying Circus and the Surfside Flyers Kite Club teamed up to put on a Kite Festival over the weekend of April 24-25th 2021, on the beach in Port Aransas Texas. The festival started around 10am Saturday, paused for a few hours around midnight, then resumed Sunday morning until mid afternoon.
The winds were not very kind to kites during Saturday afternoon, but picked up again just in time for the night show with these illuminated kites.
While the winds weren’t friendly to the larger kites, we took to the beach with our Osmo Action Camera on a selfie stick to see what the seagulls were up do. Lots of action by the seagulls, but fortunately none of them crapped on my head… We did fly the drone over a flock of them while they were on the sand, but it didn’t really seem to bother them all that much. Even when the drone was flying near them in the air, they largely ignored the drone.
We had been invited to come fly our drones to record the event and this is one of those resulting videos. We frequently like come visit the coast whenever Surfside Flyers Kite Club hold an event, but this was a first time for us to spend time with the Coastal Bend Flying Circus.