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Places and Trails across Hong Kong
West Kowloon Cultural District is a pleasant waterfront park
Though primarily established for arts and culture, and with museums including M+ (contemporary modern art) and the Hong Kong Palace Museum, the West Kowloon Cultural District is well worth visiting just to enjoy a waterfront park – including in late afternoon when there may be fine views of sunset over…
Kwai Chung Park with views over Rambler Channel to Tsing Yi
Kwai Chung Park opened in December 2025; and while it isn’t a place meriting a long trip, it’s well worth knowing about if you happen to play cricket at the neighbouring Gin Drinkers Bay ground – partly as it has toilets rather than stinky portaloos: luxury! There’s a grassy area…
Activities in Hong Kong outdoors
Cycling and Walking from Quarry Bay to Central inc North Point Waterfront Promenade
When collecting a new bicycle from Decathlon in Tai Koo Shing, I figured it might be interesting and some fun to try cycling along the waterfront to the Central Ferry Piers [then, ferry to Cheung Chau]. Well, it turned out to be a curate’s egg – good in…
Taking Hong Kong landscape photos come rain or shine
Even if you don’t travel outside Hong Kong, your photos don’t have to be much the same, week after week, day after day after day. Shooting from the same spot, it’s possible to take highly contrasting photos, such as by heading out at different times of day, and…
Telford Gardens, a private housing estate in Kowloon Bay, East Kowloon, has become an unlikely hotspot for migratory birds, notably for seeing some normally secretive wetland species such as Locustella warblers and rails. Unless you arrived here when there are birders/photographers, you might glance around and just dismiss…
I had a whatsapp message from Nick Florent this afternoon, a bird on the beach, on Cheung Chau; there was a photo too – a red-footed booby! This seabird is rare in Hong Kong, and even then seen pretty much only over waters well south of Hong Kong…
Weather including tropical cyclones
With Super Typhoons Near Hong Kong, Small Variations in Tracks Mean Huge Differences in Impacts
Occasionally, typhoons have caused immense damage and loss of life in Hong Kong; the worst effects arise from storm surges, which are somewhat akin to tsunamis accompanied by mighty waves; see Hong Kong Typhoons including Calamitous Storm Surges. But also, even powerful typhoons can approach Hong Kong, and…
Widespread Impacts of Super Typhoon Ragasa including Hong Kong: storm surges, fierce winds, tornado
On 18 September 2025, the system that became Super Typhoon Ragasa developed into a tropical depression; it then rapidly intensified to the east of Luzon, before passing through the Luzon Strait and heading towards the Guangdong coast – looking set to perhaps hit Hong Kong directly. It was…
[press release:] Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden’s long-running, scientifically informed forest restoration programme has been awarded Premium-Tier Certification by The Global Biodiversity Standard, the first site in the world to achieve this accolade. For almost 30 years, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) has managed the upper slopes…
Email to director of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, after multiple correspondence with other FEHD officials failed to achieve progress on issue of over zealous use of pesticides versus mosquitoes killing considerable other wildlife: I’m a birdwatcher living on Cheung Chau, and have made numerous complaints to…
Views on Updating BSAP for Hong Kong: save the lowlands, but original BSAP mostly all talk no action
Dear AFCD, I am writing to submit my views on the updating of the city’s BSAP (Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan) for 2025-2035. Lantau: need positive projects for lowlands, especially pui o wetlands [way beyond simply struggling to stop small reclamations here, there; death by a thousand cuts;…
