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The Redwood Coast Kite Festival has taken over Eureka’s Halvorsen Park for a weekend of kite-flying fun! 

Kites of all shapes and sizes filled the clear blue skies above the waterfront this Saturday afternoon. The third annual event, a collaboration between Humboldt Kiters and the Ink People Center for the Arts, drew hundreds of people out for what proved to be a near-perfect day of kite flying.

“Everybody plays with kites when they’re kids, right? It’s just good fun,” Mark Ahrens, the festival’s coordinator, told the Outpost. “There’s something in it for everyone. There are people here who can do amazing things with kites, you know, aerial displays, duets, and choreography – stuff that is just phenomenal. It’s really an art.”

If you weren’t able to make it out today, don’t fret: Kiters will be back on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A schedule of events can be found here.

Keep scrolling for more pictures of today’s festival!

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