SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA SECRETS: Berkeley Kite Festival

This series highlights great things to do in the San Francisco Bay Area, that cost little or no money.

The Berkeley Kite Festival. What a great way to spend a sunny summer afternoon down at Cesar Chavez park in the Berkeley Marina. And it is absolutely free!. This is the 20th annual festival, but the first one that I've known about. You can see in the picture how extravagant most of the kites are. And read more ... These guys are giant octopus', but there were equally interesting ones in the from of geckos, ghosts, trilobytes, and of course the old fashined geometric shapes, like the one Jonathan bought recently.

The highlight of the day was the "kite ballet," whereby six master kite flyers did a real choreography of kites, with music, rhythm, and all the elemets of a real ballet. Unbelievable.