The spring of 2013 wasn't my best year for kiting opportunities, as the whole "kid thing" had finally become a reality, where my responsibility of picking up Avy from daycare (my wife drops her off at daycare) definitely cut into my ability to jam out of work and head straight to Jetty Island for a session. Spring of 2013 really was the first time I didn't have absolute freedom to kite at will.
On the other side of things though, as much as I love kiting, I really do love spending time with my little princess.
Regardless, I was still teaching kiteboarding lessons for Urban Surf so every weekend you would find me at Jetty Island. Many times I got to teach for a few hours and then get a good session in myself. Although...yes, I did get less time on the water in the summer of 2013 because I wasn't teaching both Saturday and Sunday like previous summers.
On a good sunny Sunday, I took the whole family to the island, including Avy's Grandparents (my mom and dad). The wind wasn't great, but Avy proved once again that she is a natural beach bum and water dawg.
Sun and wind mean kites, boarder, and friends at Jetty Island!
On the other side of things though, as much as I love kiting, I really do love spending time with my little princess.
Regardless, I was still teaching kiteboarding lessons for Urban Surf so every weekend you would find me at Jetty Island. Many times I got to teach for a few hours and then get a good session in myself. Although...yes, I did get less time on the water in the summer of 2013 because I wasn't teaching both Saturday and Sunday like previous summers.
On a good sunny Sunday, I took the whole family to the island, including Avy's Grandparents (my mom and dad). The wind wasn't great, but Avy proved once again that she is a natural beach bum and water dawg.
Avy loves the water. Here you see her first body surfing experience.
Sun and wind mean kites, boarder, and friends at Jetty Island!
Avy and her grandma....watching someone shlog around in the light wind.
Not to veer too far from kiting with all these pics of Avy, I bought my wife Becky a new 11M Naish Ride for an early bday present. She loves this kite. A very good kite for light wind riding with a ton of low end grunt.
Avy was tired after her body surfing session...but that was nothing a little lounging and mouthfuls of Strawberries couldn't fix.
And here I am, wearing my Chennai Super Kings Cricket Jersey (I got in when I went to India a month earlier...non-kiting trip or you would see pics). Definitely did not get the best session in on this day...but I had a great time. And, I did get a decent amount of kiting in at Jetty Island over the next 3 months of summer.
OK. To close out this post, I will say that I won't always bog down my posts with 100 shots of my little girl. But for this post I thought you may enjoy seeing Avy once again, among the Pacific Northwest kiters at Jetty Island, Seattle's premiere summer kiteboarding beach.
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