In Case You Missed It: The 79th Zilker Kite Festival

The Sunday afternoon sky was littered with hundreds of plastic birds, Supermans and Technicolor stingrays (above) as The 79th Annual Zilker Kite Festival took over Zilker Park.

If you aren't familiar with the kite festival, it's first and foremost a family affair filled with moon walks and puppet shows, face-painting and rock climbing. Aside from enjoying a day in the park, it's basically the quickest way in Austin to meet absolute strangers--all day long you're either apologizing for hitting someone with your kite, or you're spending your time untying knots created when you got distracted.

The wind was a bit stubborn in maintaining a direction, but steady in strength, allowing many to let their kites fly hundreds of feet in the air--a good view for those of us who decided to lounge on the grass.

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By patrickdentler in Other on March 5, 2007 2:29 PM 0 Comments

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SolMan-ATX

Wind was great this year. Too much wind if anything. It was just a perfect day, blue sky, hundreds of kites, skyline in the background, lots of laid-back people.

I hear even the shuttle worked out for folks. Don't try to drive to events in Zilker - it's not worth the stress. We walked and that made it even more fun.

pd

Roy,

It was much better than last year. I remember there was no wind last time and it was really upsetting for a lot of people. I remember being able to count the number of kites in one hand. Yesterday, it did change direction a lot which made for some lines getting crossed, but this year it definitely was strong enough to keep even the big ones up.