Hong Kong Beaches

Hi Hellmantle - welcome to Hong Kong Outdoors!

Bit tardy replying, partly as a few days out of HK.

I swam at Lamma this summer - on junk trip; we moored right by the power station (!) - even looking with binoculars at beaches to south, didn't appear any were great. Looks like I should try Lo So Shing tho (walked to it before); wonder re cleanest water in HK: beating Sai Kung, Tung Ping Chau?

April 2005 - and now visited Lo So Shing, tho didn't swim; and, well, the water might be clean, but the beach is small, and power station in view (yes, view is better if look away from the power station).

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Post edited by: Martin, at: 2005/04/26 18:46

Hi Yellow:

Err, yes, that's likely true. But HK beaches are a darn sight closer to where I live (under 10 mins walk from my place to Cheung Chau's main beach).
And maybe several HK beaches are typically quieter than at least some in Gold Coast? Better hiking nearby, too?

Anyways, hope you manage to enjoy HK as well as Queensland.

Martin

Hi Douglas:

No official ones as yet, but a beach may yet be designated for nudity on small island off Sai Kung.

For a less than wholly serious "review" of this beach, check out http://www.geocities.com/hkhemlock/rooster/diary-19feb05.html

Martin

Tung Ping Chau has been depopulated for a few decades; down to maybe one or two elderly men I think.
Move out coincided with widespread exodus from more remote HK farming areas, around 1970s I think, as farming became uncompetitive here, and cities lured (HK, and overseas). I also heard something re islanders experiencing problems with some people who came from mainland, burgling houses.