by Festival, will be held at Kings Beach, Port Elizabeth, at Easter (2-4
April).
The Splash Festival is at present the biggest water based festival in
South Africa. It started a few years ago and has now grown to the
point where events will now take place along the entire Port Elizabeth
beachfront, from Summerstrand to King's Beach.
Kiting has been a small, but integral part of the Splash Festival
since its inception. We participated and flew kites at Hobie Beach
each year, with more interest and participation each year, until we
outgrew the available space in 1998.
In 1999 we will be at King's Beach for the second year running, where
we will hold the first National Kite Festival, organised by the East
Cape Kite Flyers (ECKF) on behalf of the South African Kite Flyer's
Association (SAKFA) to be held in Port Elizabeth. Participants from
around the country will put on a kite display as yet not seen in the
Eastern Cape.
A quick summary of events:
Thursday 1 April
7.00pm Kings Beach Surf-Lifesaving Club Meet for a drink and
catch up with old friends
(during each day, there will be ample space for general flying
of single liners, stunters, and power kites (and buggying), on
Kings Beach, within reason)
Friday 2 April
Children's Kite Building workshop.
Easter Egg Drop Kings Beach
Stunt Kite Demonstration
Ski/Buggy Run (Gamtoos Rivermouth to Maitlands
Rivermouth.(22km, be prepared!) )
Rokkaku Kite Fighting
6.00pm Pizza Evening Venue to be announced
Saturday 3 April
Children's Kite Building workshop.
Rokkaku Kite Fighting
Creative Kite Competition Entries to be submitted.
Stunt Kite Demonstration
Ski/Buggy Run Gamtoos Rivermouth to Maitlands Rivermouth.
Easter Egg Drop Kings Beach, flying arena
Rokkaku Kite Fighting Kings Beach, flying arena
7pm Bring and Braai, announcement of Creative Kite Competition
winners.
Sunday 4 April
Easter Egg Drop Kings Beach, flying arean
Rokkaku Kite Fighting
Stunt Kite Demonstration
Ski/Buggy Run Gamtoos Rivermouth to Maitlands Rivermouth.
Stunt Kite Demonstrations
3.00pm Rokkaku Kite Fighting
(We have purposely not scheduled activities later on Sunday, and none
on Monday, since most visitors will be starting to leave for home and
would miss out)
See the full festival schedule at
http://www.ru.ac.za/departments/iwr/staff/daf/kite/fest.html
David Forsyth
http://www.ru.ac.za/departments/iwr/staff/daf/index.html
Living in South Africa