After reading all of the posts and haveing been there twice this year to learn to Kite, I am impressed with everyone's comments. Living in San Juan Island, where access to any water is just about over for the Joe Worker Guy and his family, with signs that say you can't cut driftwood, nor collect it ...

One of the most serious emergency calls came at 5:30 p.m. from a Lake Washington kite boarder who watched as another boarder was dragged north by the gusting wind.

A Seattle police patrol boat found the 44-year-old boarder floating face down about half a mile from the Kirkland marina, Officer Jeff ...