Rarely, if ever have we seen such a display of Keystone Copishness to the approach taken by these people to fight a simple and small fire, yet some 20 hours later the fire still burns way out of control.

We sat helplessly and watched as the seat of the fire, some 300 meters from our house was left unchecked until it re-ignited and blazed its way up the mountain until it took such a hold that the fire itself is now some 1.5kms UPWIND from where it stared.

Utter disbelief that no one has been killed and not more property has been raised to the ground.

And why? Why did this happen? Cutting down sap filled trees on the hottest days of the year, not clearing away the fallen debris and then, are you ready for this…..SMOKING IN THE TINDER DRY ground!!!!!!! A group of whooping and yeharring cowboys chopping down trees whilst yelling and thumping their chests, it was incredible and shocking to watch

These are just some of the images I managed to take before it got really dangerous and night fell.

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Campeonato De Espana De Kiteboard

Lazyblueskies went on a 2500km road trip to bring you the latest selection of images from the Spanish Kite Pro-Am at Roses (on the Southern Boarder of Spain with France). The wind ranged from 2 knots to 52 knots and saw some awesome riding from Gisela Pulido and Jo Ciastula. Alvaro Oneiva arrived late to the competition due to travel arrangement and was forced to endure heat after heat with 3 minutes of rest before 7 minutes of hard riding. The images on the link below speak for themselves, and he won the Senior Males!! Gisela laid down some of the most incredible powered kiteloops which thrilled the eager crowd and saw her taking First place on the podium and a second place on the Racing Podium.

Newcomer to the sport and kiting for only 367 days, yes that’s 1 year and 2 days, Forest Bakker from Flexifoil International and Shapes of Tarifa showed just how much promise and talent he has both during the competition (when the wind was just shocking) and when the wind was gunning and he was just riding for fun. Definitely one to watch in the future.

Gabi from Kitec and Sam from Surfeador both in Tarifa were rescue cover with their super fast and highly manoeuvrable Thunder Cat Race Boats.

A surprise visitor to the event was the incredibly interesting Edurne Pasaban (World Record Holding Female Mountain Climber). Both herself and Gisela Pulido rounded off the event by throwing themselves out of a perfectly good aircraft for a Free-Fall Parachute that landed on the kite beach!!!

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