Here's the video making process!.......
I start off by copying all my video files onto an external hard drive. I have 10 files from the SJ 5000 cam (should have turned the image stabilization off as it hates being mounted to the buggy). Joel very kindly has given me the drone files from the first few flights, so another 6 files from there. 15 .mov files from my SLR. 47 files from my hand held gopro and 42 files from the ION Air Pro mounted on the back of the buggy.
Once that's copi
So John left yesterday, so I thought I'd keep up the blog writing for you all.
A busy day out on the clay pan with approximately 11 blokarts, several with the "Shadow" side carts and the custom land yachts zipping in between the branded sails. Dougie, Chook, Rob, Jay and Darryl have the buggies out and will soon have to do some dodging as I see the witches hats being set up for a sailing course. Plenty of space for everyone to share though, but a lot of tacking for the kites to get out. Ou
An on shore wind started up around 11.30am so after a quick cuppa at the lobster (who's called Larry btw) we made for the beach and had a really great day running from the breakwall at Kingston up to the granites. The 6m P2 was brilliant in the 6-12 knots that we had over the course of the day and even the Pansh a15 made an appearance later in the afternoon - and looked good. Bull had the 7m Brooza up and running and it looked great against the blue sky. The wind started to turn more southerly
An amazing storm came through early this morning with some fantastic lightning on display. Before heading to bed, we watched it out to sea, hit Rob's home town, before it gracefully made tracks to the quiet town on Kingston where it didn't disappoint.
We unzipped the front end of the trailer tent, whilst dodging the rain drops, enjoyed Mother Natures light display. I hear John, tinkering around, so he's also up watching too. This was not to be missed. She did a good job with the pyrotechni
A couple of really good days on the claypan with quite a few turning out for the fun. Chook rigged his pole dancer up and proceeded to hurtle past us and pull in front spraying us (well me, anyway) with gypsum or whatever the claypan is made out of. You sure you haven't been talking to Mik333, Chook? Joel gave his Phantom 3 quad a spin with very, very impressive results. He's kindly given me the files so I can put some aerial footage into my vid.
A quiet day today with just myself and
I thought I'd post up the next couple of days wind forecast, then again the same couple of days, just to show you how unpredictable the wind came be.
Forecast as of Tuesday 19th January 2016 8:40am.
Monday 18th January 2016
Dougie @igeighty having fun with his 1997 Revolution II. One of his first kites - from brand new. Thank you to @KaoS for the spar replacement. Last flight for this one was 1998, it broke its spar when it fell from its display at home a few years back.
John's turn....
Very little wind this afternoon but still wanted to go landboarding, I pulled out the old 6m ozone little devil grabbed my board and off to the Oval. Just got set up and working hard to keep the kite up with light wind, when a gust picked up lifting the kite and myself. As I let go of the bar I realized I didn't have the safety leash on.
Standing in the middle of the Oval looking up at the kite thinking it'll come down it'll come down. Last I saw it was headed towards upper Beaconsfield, i
Sunday 17th January 2016
An afternoon in photos..... Enjoy!
I shall update throughout the day. Good Morning Kingston - morning walk as the sun came up.
Formula One Pit for Kite Buggies - Doug @igeighty
Mez of the pan! @mezzararty
Trevor's 9 meter Flysurfer Peak - a bit strong in today's wind but what a lovely looking kite? @Tiger37
John started out with his Ozone Access XT 4 meter. @jhn.holgate
We made an early-ish start on the claypan today to get there before the wind died off. I measured the wind over several minutes at an average of 6 knots......but not for long! Took the cheeseburger wrapper out and had a good run out and back before the wind died to 1.5 knots. After standing around for 20 minutes with a few false starts I gave it up and sat down in the shade with Trevor, Shane, Doug & Mary. After about 3/4 of an hour the wind turned onshore and started to rise so we all j
Another beautiful start to another day here in Kingston. A quiet morning with a gentle southerly breeze, roughly 18 knots but no fear, the 23 knots is near! It will pick up towards late afternoon - ready for the Clay Pan.
Went on a walk this morning, down along the beach (only downside is the smell of the rotting seaweed) The water, very calm but no dolphins this morning. Then up onto and along the pier and back along the foreshore. There's a co-op down that way which I'll investigat
For anyone who has ummed and arghed about making the trip to Kingston, no more excuses, it's bloody amazing here! The drive up from Victoria was a warm one, but the start of an adventure. Some amazing natural rock formations coming into S.A truly had the wow factor and it is amazing how different the landscape is.
Kingston, is a quiet little town, about 250kms south from Adelaide and is protected from the direct Southerly winds so the sea doesn't display the crashing waves like that at San
Arrived on the Tuesday - Chook and Rob were already setup in the caravan park with Doug and Mary arriving a bit later in the day. Headed to the beach and while it was 'high' tide, there was still more than enough hard pack to kite on. The wind was cross on shore but we managed a couple hours of kiting in moderate conditions.
Wednesday morning saw some static kiting and Blokart shenanigans on the foreshore which was a bit of fun. Steve was staying in a house nearby and wandered over to
