Tuesday, it was just Patrick and me from 6-7:30p. No pictures. It was a 13 meter kite day and it was a lot of fun. The 13 provides big floaty jumps in the right wind. Tuesday’s wind was just such a wind.

Wednesday I burned 4 hours of PTO and spent 4 hours on the water. We rode 13 and 9 meter kites starting with the former and finishing with the latter. Ryan took lots of pictures of me and some may get posted. I have a LOT of processing to do because 1) there were 700+ images, and 2) I forgot to look at the histogram after the first couple shots and they are all over-exposed by 2 stops – *sigh*. When I post them, I’ll put a link in here, too.

Thursday was all 9 meter action! We didn’t hit the water until about 5:30 (some were there earlier) and we were off the water by 7:30. Big jumps. Lots of waves. Even some down-the-line surf riding. But for the chilly temps, these are the days that all kiters look forward to.  Not a single windsurfer on the water, today. I suspect Mark is waiting for tomorrow and Saturday.  I can’t ride tomorrow, but I’ll be out all day on Saturday.

On the way home, I caught this scene from the Veterans Memorial Bridge. Not much editing done here. It was that vivid.