Winter Snow Kiting

Well this Christmas season has been extremely busy with work, family and everything else I seem to find myself getting into to use up my spare time. I’m making a New Years resolution (haha) to try and not be so busy all the time! I can just hear Woodette saying ” Oh, I’ll find something for you to do”, so I better be careful for what I wish for!
The Woody’s had just a terrific Christmas this year and Woodette is now the proud owner of her first kite! It’s a 6m Flysurfer ‘2Cool’. Quite the appropriate name for her I might add. We flew the kite yesterday on Christmas Day in light winds. It was perfect winds for her to get the hang of flying it. She’s genuinely stoked about learning to snowkite which I think is pretty cool. My younger sister Guin flew in from Toronto to spend Christmas with the family again this year, which I think is pretty cool too!
Guin brought her 9m Monkey ‘Griffin’ kite with her!
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Going over the kite safety system(s) with Woodette
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Guin hooked in flying my 10m Ozone Access kite
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Woodette powered up with my bro Al and Guin in the background
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Guin and Woodette filling the sky with colour
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Woodette showing us how it’s done! You can see from this video (thanks Al) when one of the previous pictures were taken. Cool!

I trust you all had a very Merry Christmas, and our wishes go out to you for a happy, healthy, safe, enjoyable, full-on ‘ride’ into the New Year.
Have fun in life!!

The Gift…

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Rigging in the snow…why do we live here!?
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My butt was getting cold!
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Self timer with my ‘photographer’ Woodette
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No worries in the world at this moment!
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The sky came alive at the end of the day!
Everyday a ‘gift’ presents itself in life…
…what that gift is may be sometimes hard to find, but most often you can see the gift with your eyes, smell it with your senses, or feel it with your body. Today’s gift for me was rigging my sail in the fresh white snow, walking through the icey cold crystal clear water until my 70cm fin cleared the sandy bottom, jumping up on my board, hooking in to my harness and leaning back to begin a fully wound session on my Mistral F2004 formula board/ Neil Pryde 9.8m V8 sail…..
I had a most memorable sail today on Thunder Lake. The wind started to die off late in the day, and it was at that time, the sky just started to come alive in colours.
What a gift I had today smiley

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