Pacific Beach WA July 4, 2013

 

 

Pacific Beach WA remains one of the special places!  Here we meet up with good friends to celebrate the 4^th of July.  We honor our country with about 10 days of celebration.  This year 15 rigs of people came to our annual event.

 

 

 

 

 

Wind toys show the group has arrived.  Many people in this group make and fly kites.  Some just fly the wind toys.

 

 

 

 

 

 

You see big toys filled with air,

 

 

 

 

 

      

          

                      smaller lawn art

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and often the whimsical display.

 

  A variety of kites fill the air.  Some remain tethered to catch the wind.

 

  

      A single line kite

Some are flown for fun.  The kites fly at the end of a single line, a double line ( above) or with four lines (to the right).

 

We gather for our big meal at the rig with the least wind. The dinner place is chosen just before set up time.  Our group possesses some great cooking skills!  We serve 40 people this year.

 

 

     Mike’s fried rice from his giant wok      
         remains a perennial favorite.

 

The young and young at heart enjoy Pacific Beach.  The weather even cooperated with sunny skies and sometime a warm temperature.

 

 

We said goodbye to our beach friends and headed inland for Fort Flagler.