Here I am at a riverside beautiful area at Yoshino...the longest and the largest river in Shikoku-island in Japan. I've found a couple of nice spots to fly my kite-wings, and today shall be the first day to put my plan into reality. There are two spots named A and B, and here is A I decided for the first trial.
Today's weather forcast of mine was a bit subtle, the eastern wind might come from the river bank or not. But even if the wind condition should not be preferable, I would just go on my way back home toward west on the causeway.
Last night I was thinking "It should be a good idea to consider around that energetic and rather a siritual feeling which I'd examined on the seashore watching nice shoulder-high waves and surfings.
Got up at 6:30 in the early morning. Hot sunbeam shines while it's the midth of Japanese rainy season "Tuyu". Soft river-down wind is blowing which changed its direction to opposite side at about 9:30, which means the river-up ideal wind should be coming up more and more.
Until noon, I spent some hours to observe the area carefully, just like when I was prepairing in the world of aviation. The setup space is so small and continuous traffic was there on a road along the riverbank.
This is not a sand beach but a grass land which would help the kite launching and landing with the "Wind Gradient Effect". Which riverbank side, the river side or the causeway side should I choose? Water-launching could be other choice. What should I do when the wind gets up too strong? What if encounter the equipment-trouble in the middle of the river? How the running of the water...etc.
When I try new things at new areas, a kind of my familier "funny nonsense way" is usually gone away.
Consequently, the right side wind went up to 7m/s which brought me very comfortable two hours in the afternoon.
3 GoPro videos are uploaded to YouTube. Hope you enjoy them.
Setup space looks like this. Could be a nice area for experienced kiteboaders, I suppose.
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