The Lake Havasu Balloon Festival is a 3 day festival where balloon pilots hope to have morning and afternoon rises plus tethered balloon rides along with a full midway and live music. We come for the day hoping to see the evening balloon glow. It is all totally weather dependent as they need winds less than 8 mph.
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| Mural near the festival. |
The winds are too high for the afternoon launch so we head for a walk along the sunset trail of Lake Havasu.
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| Mural along the walk. |
When we return to the festival, it is close to dusk and we are happy to see the evening moon glow will be going ahead. Thankfully it's a calm evening.
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| Balloons begin to appear in the distance. |
This year there are said to be 75 balloons and when they burst the fire from below to inflate them, it lights up all the beautiful colors they are made from!
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| Close up of a balloon basket as it lights up the balloon.. |
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| They come in all sorts of shapes and themes. |
We mull about all the blasting and excitement. It certainly is nice and warm within the balloon area. It lasts about an hour....a lot of propane is burned up and everyone is happy the wind subsided to allow this to happen.
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| The American Mile Band |
We head over and watch the live music for an hour or so before heading home. They were really good.
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