Reunification Day on 1 July was a perfect summer’s day in Hong Kong and it being a public holiday, I spent the day outdoors in my favourite place in Hong Kong – Sai Kung. I joined a local group of outdoor enthusiasts in their coastal trek adventure that started from the eastern end of High Island Reservoir (萬宜水庫) over to a small island called Po Pin Chau (破邊洲) and then back to the main land to Pak Lap Wan (白腊灣). Here are the pics!


Our starting point. See that small island in the picture? That’s Po Pin Chau – in Chinese its name translates literally to ‘broken sided island’ – it’s broken away from the main land due to thousands of years of erosion of the volcanic rock. We were going to head towards it to scale it.


And off we go!



We trekked along the coast and where we couldn’t walk across, we swam!


And in I go! Woohoo!


Upon reaching Po Pin Chau, we climbed up to the top …


… and were rewarded with some gorgeous views


Our party of 15 going over the top of Po Pin Chau to head down to the shore for us to swim back to the main land and continue trekking along the coast.


We then swam across to this rock where there were many small oysters stuck to it.


Some of the guys decided to have some seafood 🙂


We then swam towards this rock with two sea caves next to it. We had wanted to go into the sea caves but the waves were too strong so decided that it’d be too dangerous to do so.


We trekked past these amazing hexagonal basalt columns which the Chinese call 六角竹, literally translated to ‘six-sided bamboo’. These big columns are about 70m and really impressive looking.


A massive bamboo screen


I look incredibly tiny at the bottom!


At this little pool of water, we rested and the guys went fishing for sea urchins in the pool. They found quite a few and put them in the blue basket we had found along the way.


Of course we opened some to eat it fresh!!! Is this cool or what??? I’ve never had so much fun I tell you!


The sea urchin loot. It’s not the season for sea urchin though – there are more of them in winter. It’s just that where we were, the waters are a bit cooler so the sea urchins can survive.


Us adventure seekers loving the trekking, rock climbing and swimming! There’s me in front with that funny green float that was found along the way.


Came across a stream along the way and we sat there for awhile to sit in some fresh water and freshen up with the cool stream water. Heavenly.


We passed another pool of water and the guys went in search for sea urchins again.


Final destination – we ended at this beach and then walked a short way, through some bushes, to Pak Lap Wan where we took taxis back to Sai Kung town centre.


Part of the coastline we trekked along. This was such an awesome day out that it’ll rank as one of my best memories and adventures in Hong Kong! Sai Kung is absolutely beautiful and is my favourite spot in Hong Kong. I’m going to miss all of these ssssooooooo much!!! I haven’t even left Hong Kong and I’m missing it already. Why must good things always come to an end?