When I kicked off this sabbatical, one of my intentions was to do the stuff in HK that I don't have the time or energy for when I'm working. And so this weekend I headed off to Sai Kung country park to surf and camp out.
We were initially a group of 7, connected through yoga. At the ungodly hour of 7am we met in Central, the remnants of Saturday night streaming home as we headed out to the country. 45 minutes in a cab, followed by 15 on a boat and we were mooring up on a tiny pier to hike over to Tai Long Wan beach.
Sunday night, we pitched our tents and enjoyed a day's surfing followed by a spliff and beers on the beach. After dinner at a local noodle bar we headed back to camp, lit a fire and lay back, watching the stars (in Hong Kong! Who'd have thought it?) before heading to bed, tired and happy, at 9.
This, for me, is one of the amazing things about Hong Kong. Tai Long Wan (Big Wave Bay) is about as remote as you can get in HK. There are no cars, roads, few houses and today, Monday, no people either, save for a few other lucky souls who could afford to spend their time lounging on a beach and surfing. It's remote enough that you have to watch out for wild pigs (one was round our campsite and apparently they get nasty) and snakes (one of our party found out the hard way and got bitten - he'll live).
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It's been years since I did something like that! So jealous so jealous. Were there marshmallows on the fire? Did you sing silly songs? Did anyone do rubbish map reading and get you all lost? Those are the best weekends. x
Hey, FM,
What's this with the map angst?
Both here and elsewhere?
& for the record, I have no issues with girls map reading, provided they know what they are doing. I have a friend (hard to believe but there you go) and she is the best orienteer I know.
Of course the whole thing is a dying art with the prevalence of handheld GPS
no marshmallows this time but we did sing silly songs, laugh like drains and ask silly sixth form questions like "what's going to be new in your life next year?" and so on and so on...
and we didn't really talk about the real world once and it was lovely.
I'm a geographer through and through. Love maps, they are great. Gadgets are all very well but what happens when the GPS goes wrong?
You get the compass out and start looking at the contours. :-)
Are you a professional cartogropher?
I love maps. They are magic.
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