It’s a big honkin’ alligator! Or is it a crocodile? I can’t tell from here. This was one of the giant flying creatures and shapes flying just north of Horizon Middle School.

If you were anywhere in North Bismarck, you could have seen these dotting the horizon (no pun intended) north of town. What wasn’t so easy to see from a distance was the actual scale of these floating objects. They’re HUGE!

As you can see, these are pretty enormous. They’re part of the Prairie Rose State Games. There were a bunch of different animals and shapes flying out there, all of these much too large for some guy to just stand there with a reel of string and hold them in place. They were on heavy duty lines, anchored to the ground.

There were guys running around like crazy, getting the different kites up in the air. They had many of them on display, a couple of them easily over a hundred feet long with their tails. Some of them flew pretty automatically, others spent plenty of time up and down.

Here’s another picture for a sense of perspective. The tiny people in the lower right of the photo include a KXMB photographer. I don’t think KFYR was on top of this one.