Horseshoe Bay is part of Bermuda's South Shore National Park. On Good Friday every year, hundreds of people gather here to fly traditional Bermuda kites which are constructed with multi-coloured tissue papers. The kites fill the skies in a riot of colours while people enjoy the traditional foods of Good Friday, which are fishcakes and Hot Cross buns.

Some of these kites are constructed in a way that they emit a humming / buzzing sound. Unfortunately, people flying these kites tend to fly them in residential neighbourhoods and these attention-seeking people just tie them to some post and leave them to fly all day and all night, creating a very annoying constant buzzing sound.

Calm wind on this year's Good Friday caused most of the traditional (heavier) kites to be grounded. The smaller plastic kites and strings can be hazardous to marine animals when fallen into the ocean. A recent US report concluded that 100,000 marine mammals die each year in the world's oceans by eating or becoming entangled in plastic rubbish. Some get entangled and drown; some eat the plastic which blocks digestion and slowly starve to death. Yes, this is a Debbie Downer Card.

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Photo © 2008 by George Lin