A lack of balloons

Balloon festival time again. Last year there was a wide selection of weird designs floating around the sky, like the one above. There were to have been even more this year, but the balloonists planned to cheat by flying into the country on commercial flights, rather than floating across the border, so most of them did not make it. What we were left with was a surprisingly large number of Thailand based balloons.

Dragged myself out of bed at 0500 and headed off to the site with Nik who is much better than I at getting up in the mornings. The dawn was just breaking as the first balloons were being readied for action.

As the sky lightened, a number of balloons were prepped and launched.

One balloon was smaller than most and was piloted by a polar bear (suitably kitted out in a cardigan for the rather chilly morning), optimistically aided by a man with radio control.

To compensate for the lack of variety this year, here are a few more shots I took at last year’s event:

Comments 🔗

2008-11-30 | Billy says

Shame that ‘Cabbages and Condoms’ were not represented this year. It would have been so exciting to see a giant …… cabbage

2008-11-30 | Spike says

Something like this? http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/03j71l1g7ngok/610x.jpg