Places and Trails across Hong Kong
Double Haven – Yan Chau Tong – is one of the Loveliest Areas in Hong Kong
The hills of the mainland northeast New Territories tumble to the sea, meeting the waters of Mirs Bay along a serrated coastline with a jumble of small stream mouths, inlets, bays and headlands. Rocks, islets and islands are scattered across the inshore waters. A stretch of mainland coast and the…
Tai Tam Reservoirs, Hong Kong Island – scenery and industrial heritage in a “hidden” valley
With the record May heatwave [in 2018], and the driest start to a year since 1963, this year may serve as a wake-up call regarding the importance of our local reservoirs, and recognising the tremendous engineering feats that created them. For insights, and an enjoyable, easy outing, head to the…
Activities in Hong Kong outdoors
Sea Kayaking Hong Kong
The Sai Kung area is astounding and ideal for sea kayaking, exploring and snorkelling. Sea Kayaking Hong Kong’s Jade waters (especially Sai Kung)In the East of the territory, including Sai Kung, you will find clean, clear, jade seas, due to the deep waters, currents oceanic influences from Japan…
HK Mountain Biking
Due to the HK Mountain Bike Association several trails have been opened to the public. We do have some excellent trails in Hong Kong, in every corner of the territory. Please check the HKMBA site for maps and details. Most of the trails in Hong Kong are single…
Hong Kong’s Wonderful Wildlife
With increasing reports of wild boars – including the large male dubbed “Pigzilla” on the Peak, a couple of hikers [March 2018] mistaking a leopard cat for a tiger, and an upturn in local porcupine photos appearing online, this seems a prime time for getting out and about…
Weather including tropical cyclones
Typhoon Vicente hurricane force winds blast Hong Kong
Severe Typhoon Vicente slammed Hong Kong on 23 and 24 July 2012, with hurricane force winds blasting places including Cheung Chau. It was a surprising storm, as even a couple of days earlier it was a large but rather shapeless low pressure system, which formed over the Philippines,…
Severe Tropical Storm Pabuk
Severe Tropical Storm Pabuk looked set to have passed Hong Kong, barely causing an impact other than a pulse of thunderstorms, some rain. Headed towards Hainan, and forecast to dwindle to nothingness. But, it stopped, strengthened again, and turned around – and headed straight for Hong Kong as…
Hong Kong conservation
“If you look at satellite photos of the Pearl River delta, Deep Bay really shows up. There is nothing else like it.” David Melville Published in Asia Magazine (South China Morning Post), November 1990 An estuary shared by North-West Hong Kong and China’s Shenzhen Special Economic Zone is…
Though Mai Po Marshes is at the heart of Hong Kong’s internationally important Deep Bay wetland, there are other important sites in the area – including the fishponds at Fung Lok Wai. These have been in the news at times due to wrangles over plans for housing development;…
While there’s no apocalypse now in Hong Kong’s insect world, threats and changes are cause for concern – including for us humans It’s nightfall on a grey, gloomy day, at a car park amidst woodland in Hong Kong’s central New Territories. A four-person team of moth enthusiasts has…