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沙螺灣，有山徑，有海灣，有沼澤和紅樹林，是香港生態旅遊的寶地。可惜因為大財團的勾心鬥角，把多年前原計劃中的港珠澳大橋終點由屯門搬到沙螺灣。明人這時候，香港又失了一個有觀光價值的好地方。這些相片是在03年拍攝。

一種稀有的蜻蜓

下图：利用高ＩＳＯ表現石柱上的粗糙質感。

山邊有巨型蜘蛛出沒

這些相有部份是03年3月拍，有部份則是在04年5月5日在西貢拍的。以前由於網誌的空間有限，沒有貼出來。那時的天真藍哦.....



04年5月的相片曾經放出兩帖：

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這是我有記憶以來第二次去梅窩。那裡以前叫銀礦灣，媽以前從那裡帶過一小塊礦石回家。這次從這裡坐巴士到大澳的途中拍下。

應該是用370UZ拍的，所以是很老的相，最近由相冊掘出來。

I fellowed a group of new friends to hike in Sai Kung yesterday. We walked from Mang's House (孟家屋) to Po Doi O (布袋澳). On the way, we climbed up to one of "Three Shapes of Sai Kung" (西貢三尖)

- Fisherman's Hill (釣魚翁山) which is the shape hill shown on the first photo. The bay area below the hills in the photo is a side of Po Doi O. It took 5 hours to finish the walk.



It is the second time I went up to the top of the shape peak of Fisherman's Hill.



The first time is on the first day in 2004 - I went to watch the first sunrise in 2004. We stayed overnight and cooked hotpots on the windy peak.



Finally because of air pollution, we was not able to see the break out of sunrise. That was a prefect example of "eating NW wind" for fun (貪得意走去食西北風). XDDD



*In Hong Kong, "eating NW wind(cold wind blowing in winter)" means "paying high cost foolishly for nothing".*



Since I always sit down to study from day till night, I have got a back pain. However, the back pain was gone after hiking for one hour. The photo on the left is the other side of Po Doi O.



t was just after sunset. Some restauants had turned on the lights. There are fish farms floating on the sea. At the end of the day, we had flesh seafood for dinner in the vallege.

I went to the Central to shot some slides for Christmas presents with my buddy last Saturday. There were a lot of people in Central. I have got a flu this week, walking in crowds of people make me feel bad. There were a lot of tourists from Mainland China. When the Christmas holiday comes, streets in the urban area in Hong Kong will get even more crowded. I don't want to go to Tsim Sha Tsui or Causeway Bay this Year.

The photo above was found in National Geographic Online. It was taken at Nathan Road in 1961. The police booth at the middle of roads, police uniform before handover, and old double-decker have all become history of Hong Kong.



上面那張相是在「國家地理」網頁中見到的。攝於1961年的彌敦道。路中的警岡、回歸前的警察制服和舊式雙層巴士已成為香港的歷史了。

I posted 2 photos of Tai O - the Village on Water in May. Yesterday, I visited to the village again.My friends and I went to Mui Wo by ferry, then took a bus to Tai O. Since we took some time to walk around Mui Wo, it was also 5 p.m. when we arrived at Tai O bus station. That was a little bit late. All of the bus tour groups had left. The street was not crowded with tourists. The village was quiet and peaceful. A few children were playing near the bus station. Tai O is been modernizing. There is a contruction site next to the bus station. There will be some tall buildings on the area behind the boys in the future.



There were some fishing boats parked near a pier. There are two piers in Tai O. The east pier is near the bus station. Modern ferry and fishing boats always parked there. The west pier is mostly for boat tours. Boat tour normally is a trip to see the Rock of General and to Chinese White Dolphin.







We walked to the west pier. As I passed a "Pan Uk" - (棚屋) the house build on water, I was attracted by sticks piled up outside the house. Although Hong Kong is a modern city, some people in Tai O still use wood to make fire. The colour inside those sticks were bright and orange, but the bark is rough and lighter than the inner part of sticks. When we were taking photos for those sticks, the photo is at the top of this post, the mistress of the house just went home. She asked me if we were interested in going inside her house. Why Not!







The mistress is a very friendly woman. She and I had a delightful long convensation about the changes in Tai O and our prespectives on living in Hong Kong when my friends were taking photos. Next to the kitchen on her right, there is a cage for raising chickens. However, there has been no more chicken in it since the outbreak of bird flu 3 years ago.



Leaving the house, we continued to head to the west pier. It was getting dark, and the street lights had already been on.



After visiting the pier, we rushed to the east to visit Sun Ki Bridge. The village is divided by a river to the east part and the west part. The bus station and the east pier are at the east part of village.

When villagers cross the river to go to the other side of village, they say that they "過對面海" - cross the sea. When we "crossed the sea", boats and villagers had arrived home. Smoke came out from chimneies. That was the end of another day.

Today I went to BBQ at Loan Gu Tan in the afternoon with people in my church.



In the evening, my friend, her nieces and I walked on a beach. My friend got an idea of collecting some little stones and shells to make a mosaic picture. Then, they all started looking for shells and stones on the beach when I took photos nearby them.



One of her nieces is a little girl studying in kindergarten. She was very fond of picking shells, but she seemed not knowing how a shell should look like, thus always picking up broken shells and plastics. Her aunt walked far away, and her cousins did not take care of her, so I helped her distingish what she has picked up.



She just found something again. She was running towards me cheerfully. Her hair was up as she ran. Her face got sunburn in the afternoon as the sun was very bright when she had BBQ under the sun. She used a piece of tissue to wrap her shells. She thought she got a beautiful shell, but later I told her that was actually a stone.

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