Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Exitement in the little village!

Normally there is not a lot of excitement in our sleepy little village here at the east coast of the new territories. The exitement we sometimes have is normally about some pitty fallouts between some of the poeple visiting the little watering hole, we use to call the "Dong". But the typhoon from last week then turned out to have left something for us, to occupie our imagination.
A ship was wrecked on the beach and left there with no way to get out on it's own.
I'm not sure if somebody really knows where it came from or who it belong to. The day I went down to get my curiosity fullfilled, I saw how somebody actually had buildt somekind of scaffolding -of the Hong Kong typical bamboo kind- around the backpart of the ship, and this seemed to be an obstacle if the owners wants to pull the ship out to sea again. Onbord there was one guy with a mobile phone, and he seemed to guard the ship. I tried to ask him when and how, but he didn't understand and just made a sign to the sky, showing that it had something to do with the wild weather. He wasn't chinese nor caucasian, more like from india or so. So now all the speculation goes on; where did this ship come from and why was it in the bay of Sai Kung.
And ofcorse the imagination among the sleepy villagers come out with the fiercest theories. What fact is, I can't say at the moment and maybe never, but it is a bit exiting, and if I ever get the true story about this incident, I promise to tell you.

1 comment:

tomadia said...

Hi,

Great picture of a boat swept onshore by typhoon. I'm starting a magazine called Sai Kung. It launches this week. Can I use the picture in the magazine. Bylined of course. Please get in touch, if you have time. editor@saikung.com

thanks

tom hilditch