It might raise eyebrows, but it’s no prank. She really does fly kites for a living and she flies around the world – by aeroplane – to pursue her passion.
She once made and flew kites with children in Guam, a US island territory some 3000 kilometres north of Australia.Baker was fascinated. “It’s a place nobody goes to, or had heard of, and it takes two-and-a-half hours to drive around. And we met nearly every schoolkid on the island,” she said. Jo Baker’s 12-metre Manta Ray kite is dwarfed by one of the world’s largest statues, the Statue of Unity, in Gujurat in India, 2019.
“It was amazing. They had us in stadium, like the MCG, and at night there was a full medal presentation ceremony in front of 80,000 people, presenting us with flowers, raising the Australian flag and playing the national anthem.”