We took a ferry to Lamma Island for the day. Poor Arden, we've discovered, gets very seasick- unlike his mother who wishes she was a pirate or a sailor.
We walked across the entire island- following the well maintained walking trails. The vegetation is very tropical- lots of banana trees and star fruit trees along the way.
We lay on this beautiful beach for a few hours, soaking up the sounds of the South China Sea. Arden had a ball playing with some other (very naked) American children while the Chinese tourists (dressed in jackets, hats and scarves) took photos of them- not sure whether it was the whiteness, the nakedness or the coldness that intrigued them...
The view was spectacular, as we kept climbing higher (we were on the beach- the white strip of sand, in the middle of this photo, a few minutes earlier).
I've given up dehydrating myself in order to avoid the public toilets in Hong Kong- if you can't beat them, join them... so it was on Lamma Island that I reluctantly succumbed...
Lookout point.
Pirate country... Hong Kong was originally a pirate hangout- with all the islands, it was a perfect place for pirate ships to hide. I love this origin- and the more I look at the people of Hong Kong, the more I think that they look like pirate descendent's... now I just need to find those cheap pearls the tourist books talk about.
The things in the water below are actually fish farms, where they cultivate fish and some people live in their boats around these fish farms.
More walking...
Sunset and the ferry trip back to Aberdeen.
Seasick munchkin...
And back on shore again.
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So great to share Hong Kong with you in this way
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