Last beach day of season...

Two taxis, a boat, an hour's steep hike. Lovely breezy 25C sunny weather. It is indeed quite a trek (four hours to be exact) to the most lovely beach in Hong Kong: Tai Long Wan (big wave bay) located in Sai Kung.  We took a taxi to Sai Kung ($200HKD) then a New Territories Green Taxi to Wong Shek Pier ($90HKD). Then paid an old po-po/grandma $20hkd each to drive 6 of us on a small boat for 15 mins to Chek Keng, the hike start.  From there we walked a very steep 2km towards Ham Tin beach including a stop for instant noodles, fried eggs, vermicelli and fresh organic peppers. Oily but tasty. Their toilet was a dungeon literally though. From Ham Tin, this time around it was PACKED of tourists. Then another 15-20 mins hike up rocks with climbing ropes, then down to Tai Long Wan, where we played in the big waves, slept on the clean beach and just relaxed before the trek backwards home... long day!  Usually there are old ladies driving their boats directly to Sai Kung to Ham Tin but the waves were just too big.


Upon returning to Sai Kung (mad traffic) Stephen and I ate at Paisano's which was rammed with foreigners.  Their crust is nice but toppings sparse except oddly for too much cheese (typically costly in Asia), and far too little tomato sauce.  I'm sore!  Our new mattress was a welcome retreat once home.


Now today - another week at work. But i'm glad to be in town and not traveling for once. Have a great week everybody!