Valentines day is also my birthday, so it is always difficult to get a table somewhere if you want to go out to celebrate. So I organized a trip on a typical Chinese Sampan, or a tug boat of a kind. It could as well be seen as a kind of a tractor of the sea, in fact the sound is quite the same when it tugs of from the pier, with a deep humming sound.
We were ten people goimg om this trip, and we left Sai Kung at 1.30 PM. The trip would take us around the many islands just outs side in the bay of Sai Kung, and then for lunch at a restaurant on an island called High Island.
Last year at valentines day, we were freezing here in Tai Wan village, in fact whole Hong Kong was cold and humid and everybody said that this was not normal. This year it has been quite the opposite, 26 degrees, but very hazy and foggy on the day, but the weeks before has been really nice, warn and sunny; but everybody kept saying; "this is not normal".
So what is normal then for February, but maybe we have to wait to next year to find the answer to that question, as that will be the third February here we spend here, and then we maybe can start to think about what is the average February weather.
On this day the bay of Sai Kung looked pretty much like the Highlands of Scotland, with the haze covering the top of the hill's around, but the temperature didn't remind anyone of Scotland at all, as it was the mentioned 26 degrees. Here nobody really cared, there was plenty of ice to cool the beer and bubble wine, it was Saturday and the next hours was for nothing else than sit down, relax and enjoy the scenery we passed on the Sampan and the people who had agreed to spent these hours with us.
The first stop was a little island just outside Sai Kung -and in fact visible from our rooftop- called: Yim Tin Tsai. This Island is one of the many abandoned islands and villages in the new territories, but won the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Award in 2005 for the rehabilitation of the St. Joseph's Chapel, a former catholic chapel, and it's affiliated Ching Po School, on this island. The rest is abandoned and to walk through there is to visit a ghost town. In the houses is quite a lot of remedies from the former owners, just left in big piles on the floor, and some of the beds look like the people had to leave in a hurry, without time to take anything.
Stunned by the impressiones of the look into the houses of a complete abandoned village, we all found our way back to our Sampan boat, could continiue our journey around the big island of Kau Sai Chau, heading for the little floating community of Leung Shuen Wan -or High Island- and it's famours Sea food restaurants.
To be continued in: ""A boat trip, a cake, a camera and a chorizo" flashbacks from a birthday #2
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