1.   Colorful hot-air balloons fleck the sky, and wind surfers are out in force, dodging the ferries that crisscross the lake.

2.   The hope is to save the bay as a playground for boaters, wind surfers and swimmers, and also as an important wildlife sanctuary and fishery.

3.   The stage was erected on the tidal flats typically used by wind surfers to launch their crafts in the Laguna Madre.

4.   Wind surfers, divers, air-sea rescuers and even kelp farmers could all use it.

5.   Then, one struck a wind surfer from his board.