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Hi Andy:
Welcome to HK Outdoors!
I rarely camp, have little gear, so don’t know so much re the stores.
But one store I sometimes use – as has fair range of gear, plus an outlet that’s convenient for me (in Wanchai), is ProTrek.
Info on the company: [ul]http://www.protrek.com.hk/aboutus.htm[/ul]Maybe others can suggest more shops; I’ve some memories of street in Mong Kok where there are several outdoors shops; quick google search, and seems this is Fa Yuen Street.
(I must go and check it out, add to Need to Know Basics).Hope you find a good store, and report back to us.
Cheers,
MartinHi Dennis:
Yes, Nam San Wai dropped off the radar after the crafty croc was caught; glad to see it still looks a pleasant place. (In case anyone seeing your photo is inspired to visit, any tips on how best to get there?)
Martin
Post edited by: Martin, at: 2004/10/14 12:52
Hi Andy:
Welcome to HK Outdoors!
As to question – I’d guess over 20 mins, Wong Shek to Tai Long Wan; and not much more to Long Ke Wan (which is just a little past it; time to here maybe similar to time from Sai Kung to Long Ke).
Just emailed a couple of Sai Kung speedboat owners, asking them, so hope for expert answer shortly.
Cheers,
MartinHi 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 Michael:
Thanks for heading here, to HK Outdoors.
Yes, Tai Long Wan’s a top place; a friend has camped a few times, and recommends this. I haven’t tried, but keep thinking I should camp there – should be best with the autumn weather just arriving.
Martin
Hi Dennis:
That was quick! – almost immediately after I’d emailed saying we now have a forum for members photos ([note for other visitors:] in reply to email from Dennis, asking if he could post to the galleries: that’s not possible just now).
Lovely shots; I look forward to seeing more from you.
Martin
Post edited by: Martin, at: 2004/09/29 05:06
Hi Helen:
Welcome to Hong Kong Outdoors!
I haven’t seen the ice on Tai Mo Shan trees; remember, though, one especially cold winter morning when top slopes of Lantau Peak and Tai Mo Shan appeared white, even from sea level (when I came in on ferry from Zhaoqing, west of Guangdong – where had just had some snow in low hills [though no snow in HK; the white on mountains here was frost/ice I believe])
Martin
Hi Bill and Sheron:
Welcome to Hong Kong Outdoors!
So glad you like the site; and if you try some of the outings, maybe you can later post a note on whether you had a good time or not – plus any extra advice.
Martin
Hi kayakandhike, welcome to the forums. Yes, some top weather over the weekend.
But even on Cheung Chau (where red tide not noted in media reports), I swam on Friday and came out with fair amount of algae on me – didn’t notice it was red, but maybe related. There weren’t plastic bags etc – but it just needs an easterly wind, and sure enough these and other floating lap sap blow inshore. 😡
Welcome to Hong Kong Outdoors, Blurmax
Yes, stupid and stubborn seem the words for the govt regarding this project (and more besides, perhaps).
Some 218 people have signed petition here against the super prison; many adding pointed comments.
Not one person has emailed, or posted message in this forum, saying they believe the super prison is a good idea (legislator Raymond Ho and others likely don’t visit sites like this!)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).
[img width=450]https://www.hkoutdoors.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/lam_lo_so_shing_beach.JPG[/img]
Post edited by: Martin, at: 2005/04/26 18:46
Thanks for the ideas, Richard – and welcome to Hong Kong Outdoors.
Happily, I’ve never quite aimed for nature but ended up in Tuen Mun industrial area; tho went to some non-pretty places trying to see the crocodile.
Till someone produces a site along lines you suggest (inc how to reach “Springs national park gate”??), maybe you can try digging around this site for some info, and perhaps buy my book, Hong Kong Pathfinder, for info on hiking and walking in Hong Kong :laugh:
And if you come across other info on travelling in HK that people could fine useful, maybe you could post it in the forums.
Martin
Hi Keen:
I very much hope you prove correct, and that we do see some good eco-tourism development in Tai Po/Sai Kung: could be great, and perhaps an example to others.
But we’ve seen some rather dodgy projects proposed/implemented, with degree of “greenwashing”: a six-storey hotel was planned for Tai Long Wan (I talked with architect who said it would be environmentally sound, and got very unhappy when I told him no way; thankfully, hotel not built [yet); then at Sham Chung, seen a supposed organic farm for underprivileged kids (or something like this), which to me seemed little used if at all, even tho had plaque suggesting support from some s China biologists; this “farm” is now about abandoned beside land trashed for golf course that wasn’t used.
Martin
Hi Sandy:
Welcome to HK Outdoors!
Lest no surf dudes drop by: found this page re Cheung Sha surfing:
http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/Asia/Hong_Kong/cheung_sha_beach_lantau/Looks to me like southwest monsoons might be best (few n far between so far this summer), maybe also tropical storms to sw of us (care with these!), or even overland to west/northwest.
HK Obs site maybe worth checking, inc for 7-day forecast, mind you must take latter with pinch of salt: http://www.hko.gov.hk/contente.htmGood to learn of such a grand eco-survey; so much enthusiasm generated.
Too bad there was no such grand survey before the abandoned rice fields were trashed; David Dudgeon rated the area of old fields/streams as (I believe) the second best freshwater wetland in Hong Kong. Sadly, pretty close to zero birding here that I know of, before the fields were destroyed.
I’ve done some birding there; found the “golf course” thing almost sterile bird-wise. A smattering of wetland birds, inc Pied Kingfisher. Some woodland birds in surrounding woods (would you believe?) – my best being a Ferruginous Flycatcher.
mid-May is late to start on bird work; tho I did a day or so in mid-summer I think.
Who knows with SHK: might be hard to come up with scheme to make loads of money from Sham Chung, so maybe something that promises at least some return, coupled with (let’s be hopeful here!) plaudits from greenies might be of interest.
What of the pier?
After SCM Post reported on villages getting water supplies costing millions of dollars, yet no one connecting to the supplies, and hardly anyone living in these villages anyway, may be more scope for trying to stop the new pier project on basis of it being a big, silly waste of money.
Instead, could use the cash to buy fancy city apartments for the two or three residents of Sham Chung (can’t be many more, if that). Or, would be way better if could just buy some of the land, for improvement and safeguarding.
