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All manner
of wind powered flying devices takes to the air for the
Festivals. The Festivals are a great success attracting
slarge crowd to Emu Park The FOW coincides with the E.P.Lions
market day.
The Emu Park Lions provide food and drinks down the beach
end from 11:00am with the Keppel dogs a sure winner with
the patrons.
Visitors can make their own kites from kits on sale and
then try their hand at flying their creation on the beach.
Children can take advantage of the available colouring
pens to decorate the kites before they head off for a
test flight.
A massive fireworks display ends the great family day.
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The
Festival is held every year with a theme of enjoying everything
to do with the wind. Simple kite flying to wind powered
sailing craft and even hang gliding and parachuting are
all featured on the day.
Rokkaku is a Japanese tradition of fighting kites where
the contestants are all attempting to break the opposition
kites loose and hopefully be the last kite in the air.
In some of the more serious competitions the contestants
will glue glass particles to the last 2-3 meters of the
kite string to cut more quickly through the other lines.
Obviously this requires quite a deal of skill as the other
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Pics by the master photographer
Rob Tait
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Find us right here in "The Park"
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