Every other day!

Every other day we get up at 4.45 am to go for a one hour run before work. The roads are empty and quiet, the heat is still endurable and the light at the break of a new dawn, makes it even nice to look at and then at least you can enjoy that while struggling along the road, with sweat hailing down from your body.
Well today wasn't one of the every other running days, that was yesterday. Anyway, I've always felt that it could be worth to do some photos in, and around Sai Kung at this early time of the day, but I've never done it. When we're running, I can't bring a camera, and just to get up that early to walk the about one mile -just for some photos- never really occurred to me as reasonable. But since yesterday I've got a bike again. After over one year without one, I finally got one again, and so I got up at 5.20 am, took this bike and drove the one mile on the empty road to the sea front and the public pier of Sai Kung with the camera, to triy to catch some of these stunning moments at the break of dawn. Unfortunate this day was not one of the most beautiful as the sky was covered by clouds, and so didn't let the golden light through, to colour up the sky and the sea, as usual.

You maybe wont believe it, but Sai Kung is rather busy at this early time, and most of the people we meet on our runs, are also people doing exercise. And at this time, the majority of these people are the older chinese people. they run, ride bikes, walks, do gymnastics and Tai Chi all along the sea front, and some even go into the water for a 5.30 am morning swim. I like this culture of exercise, and everybody does it and nobody pay any attention, it is normal here. Through the day it is common to meet people -old as young- doing exercises at all public places. And the impact; lot less fat and overweight people than back home -in the western culture- and I often had the thought that; "I could never imagine older western people, would dare to do exercises at the public places and squares in western cities. They would be too embarrassed doing so, where everybody can watch them, and what they would think about them; "no, that's not normal, wanna another coffee? Do ya take sugar & cream? -All right then, here's more bisquits."
Our Tai Wan village from a new perspective. Normally I use to put our rooftop view here for you to see, but now as I've got more mobile; here is our village as seen from Sai Kung, and all the small dots you can see -if you look close- in the water, is just all the morning swimmers, who's yelling and loud talking -along with all the birds- breakes the morning silence.