A Padre Island Visit

 After our visit to the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville Texas, we drove over to nearby South Padre Island to have a look around.  We had been here before but it had been a few years ago.

The north end of South Padre Island was cool, windy and almost deserted on this February afternoon.  That is the Gulf of Mexico on the horizon.

However, closer to town a Kite Festival was going on and above you can see one very large circular kite.

These six kites were being flown in synchronous fashion making different patterns without getting tangled. 

We sat in our vehicle across the street as the operators/hobbyists put on a pretty good show.

Here are the people who were flying the kites.  They were very skillful and never got their lines tangled.

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