Last Flight of the Decade

Well, we sun went down too soon, it was cold as hell, and the landscape of Ljubljana Marshes is rather bleak this time of year …

In this bend of Iscica river the remains of Neolithic pile-dwellings were found, and the place is a part of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The main reason for this late winter afternoon KAP session was practice: KAP Jasa kite club is going to represent Slovenia at the International Kite Festival in Gujarat, India – we fly there in a couple of days! – and we surely don’t want to embarass ourselves.

So it was the old unfold the Rokkaku – put the spars in – pull the spars out – put the spars back in, this time in the right order – bend the horizontal spars – attach the kite line – remove the kite line – untie the rogue knot – attach the kite line again – bend the spars some more – catch the wind and fly! routine …

And with great help and kite mastery from two young and aspiring KAPers, Viktor and Maša, the Rokkaku rose steadily above the Marshes, for the last time in this decade …

All in all 2019 was a great year for us – over 60 KAP sessions and hundreds of photos, some of them really cool – this one won 2nd prize in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 photo contest!, a fantastic IKF Ljubljana 2019 (thanks, Zmajoljupci!), a heap of new kites (thanks, Janez!), flying in Ahmedabad, in Italy, on the island of Prvic …

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q3FiWB44qfQ%3Fautoplay%3D0%26mute%3D0%26controls%3D1%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fkapjasa.wixsite.com%26playsinline%3D1%26showinfo%3D0%26rel%3D0%26iv_load_policy%3D3%26modestbranding%3D1%26enablejsapi%3D1%26widgetid%3D1

Here come the roaring twenties. May the wind always be on your side!

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