Of the many ways people have invented to ride boards of one kind or another, the sport of kiteboarding (aka kitesurfing) is one of the newest. It owes a debt to all the board sports that came before it, borrowing a little bit from snowboarding, water skiing, wakeboarding, and of course windsurfing. Like snowboarders and skiers, windsurfers and kiteboarders often share play space, as they are doing here off the Pelješac Peninsula in Croatia. They can count on a stiff afternoon breeze to fill their sails in the summer months, when the land heats up and draws in the cool air over the Adriatic.
Kiteboarding and windsurfing in Croatia
Today in History
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Anniversary of the Endangered Species Act of 1973
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A rest stop for the birds
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The desert blooms
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Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act anniversary
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National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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Veterans Day
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Eastern grey kangaroos in Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park
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Make your way up a picturesque passageway of Chefchaouen
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Loud waters
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Raise your hand for Teacher Appreciation Day
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National Umbrella Day
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World Penguin Day
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Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, England
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Vacuum Chamber 5 at Glenn Research Center
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Macro photograph of a migrant hawker dragonfly
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World Bamboo Day
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50 years of World Heritage Sites
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Astoria-Megler Bridge, Oregon
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Astronomy Day
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It s Coffee Day
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Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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Defying gravity on a swing ride
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Surf s up—Down Under
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Napping away New Year s Day
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Getting to the bottom of the underwater waterfall
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Grandparents Day
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The monsoon arrives in the desert
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Norway s Kjeragbolten boulder
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The Sonoran Desert, Arizona
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Prayer flags in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan
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