New Zealand beach attempt II
I was up early on this morning, and the wind was pretty strong. The Sutton went right up – but started pitching around pretty violently after a while. Luckily the camera didn’t go flying off, and the whole rig managed to get quite a few shots taken, though the majority of them were blurry. By the time I got it down again – quite a struggle, frankly, which involved me stepping on the line to create slack and my partner reeling in, which took at least 20 minutes – a screw and nylon bushings were missing. I had spare parts, but not these, so that ended my New Zealand attempts. Looking back I should have tried the smaller kite – the Sutton was a bear to get on the ground again, and I’m not sure I could have even done it without help.
Despite most of the photos being blurry, I’d count this as my most successful attempt yet.