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With splendid weather in L'Escala, there is a proliferation of kitesurfers on the beach of Sant Pere Pescador, as we see in The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia, where they seem to compete with the seagulls.
Kitesurfing or kitesurfing (sometimes also called kiteboarding, or flysurfing) and even the kiteboard adaptation has been proposed, is a sliding sport.
It consists of the use of a traction kite (kite, from English), which pulls the athlete (kitesurfer) by four or five lines, two fixed to the bar (direction), and the remaining two or three (power) pass through the center of the bar and are attached to the body by means of a harness, allowing them to glide on the water using a board or a water ski on a board (wakeboard) designed for this purpose.
Several modalities can be practiced; jumps and maneuvers (freestyle), regattas between buoys (race) and wave surfing (surfkite).
Currently, in our country there are a million and a half riders, a figure that increases year after year with 100,000 new athletes who become fond of kitesurfing in Spain.
The boom that this sport has suffered in recent years has allowed kitesurfing to be an Olympic discipline for the first time at the 2024 Olympic Games to be held in Paris.
These snapshots of Sant Pere Pescador transport us to the region of Alt Empordà, in the center of the Gulf of Roses, on the banks of the Fluvià river.
The beach is 7 km of fine sand, near which there is an area that is part of the Aiguamolls del Empordà Marshes Natural Park.
