PIGS didn't fly over St Annes last weekend (August 5-6) -- but almost everything else did!

People on the beach who saw a parachuting Pikachu, giant divers swimming about in the sky, a floating octopus and a leaping frog, would be forgiven for thinking they had gone mad.

This year's sixth annual Fylde Kite Festival brought even more strange and wonderful floating objects for the crowds to see. And the perfect weather conditions over the weekend helped to produce an impressive Millennium display.

A continuous kite display, Indian and Oriental kite fighting, a teddy bear sky diving event -- in which teddies were winched up under a kite and released to experience the thrill of the drop -- a sandcastle competition, circus skills workshop and kite-making classes for children were among the attractions at the event.

There was also kite buggying -- where a flying kite pulls a buggy across the sands -- power kites and a sweet drop.

"Overall the event was the best we have ever had," said organiser Phil Womack, pictured. "The weather was perfect for both days, which is something that never normally happens. We usually have either one day where there is no wind or one where there is too much wind and the kites can't fly.

"Lots of people came. It was a brilliant weekend," he said.