ON AN ISLAND, PART 3: ROCK ROCK ROCK
Jun. 24th, 2009 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogFrom Tap Mun, we sailed on to Tung Ping Chau, located in the northeast corner of Hong Kong in Mirs Bay, close to the border with Guangdong Province in mainland China. In fact, some of those beach shots yr about to see? That’s mainland China on the opposite shore.
Notice the siltstone formations. Tung Ping Chau is basically made of sedimentary rock and, I'm told, is the only HK island that is (the others are made of igneous rock from volcanos – isn’t that interesting?). That tall rock on the lower-left corner is one half of the “Drum Rocks”. That lower-right pic is just something I shot on the 90-minute ferry ride back home.
Not much to add, except I focused a bit more on the buildings because one of them may or may not be the house where the bridal unit grew up. KT doesn’t remember (she was three when she left, after all) and neither does her mom (who is over 80 and trying to remember a place she left almost 40 years ago).
Anyway, it was interesting walking around and trying to imagine the place circa 1969, and what it was like to live there. That said, at that time the island’s population was already dwindling, and the only people moving there were mainland Chinese trying to swim there to escape the Cultural Revolution. So it might not have been as idyllic as it looks.
So yes, that was my weekend.
Normal bloggery resumes.
On the rocks,
This is dF
Notice the siltstone formations. Tung Ping Chau is basically made of sedimentary rock and, I'm told, is the only HK island that is (the others are made of igneous rock from volcanos – isn’t that interesting?). That tall rock on the lower-left corner is one half of the “Drum Rocks”. That lower-right pic is just something I shot on the 90-minute ferry ride back home.
Not much to add, except I focused a bit more on the buildings because one of them may or may not be the house where the bridal unit grew up. KT doesn’t remember (she was three when she left, after all) and neither does her mom (who is over 80 and trying to remember a place she left almost 40 years ago).
Anyway, it was interesting walking around and trying to imagine the place circa 1969, and what it was like to live there. That said, at that time the island’s population was already dwindling, and the only people moving there were mainland Chinese trying to swim there to escape the Cultural Revolution. So it might not have been as idyllic as it looks.
So yes, that was my weekend.
Normal bloggery resumes.
On the rocks,
This is dF
