Camping at Long Ke beach, Sai Kung

Hong Kong has one of the highest numbers of public holidays per year, so when one came around recently, some friends and I went camping overnight, to what is reputed to be Hong Kong's most beautiful beach, Long Ke, in Sai Kung.

We live right over on the western side of Kowloon, so we had a 3 hour journey by MTR (underground) and minibus to get to Sai Kung country park (eastern territories).

So we jumped on the public minibus, filling it up entirely...




...and got to Sai Kung Village (way out in the middle of nowhere), where we found Nemo and some of his friends.



Another public minibus and a taxi later and we got to our destination, Long Ke beach...




We set up camp right next to the beach...



... and where Neville found a dead tree, climbed up it and started to collect wood for...



...the fire, which the kids loved (especially the marshmallows and pop corn!).



I think they also had rather a lot of fun playing around in a pool!



The next day we climbed up the hill ...



...to check out the views of the reservoir.



Looking in the other direction, we saw Sharp Peak (tallest mountain on the left in the photo below) and the beach where Steve camped a couple of years earlier. The faint land mass on the right, just below the clouds, is actually in China!



It was a rather hot day so we stopped off to cool down...



but the kids had other ideas...



...which involved getting very wet!



But at least in Hong Kong you can dry off very quickly!

Gaming Galoore

To post or not to post... it was very easy not to break with tradition and not post again...especially with a photo like this that I'm sure I'll regret putting up...

But in honour of the man called Paulo, that great mine-placer, the opitomy of XP...we held a gaming night with a 'different feel'.

I should probably step back and explain what it is we're talking about. "Wolf ET" - a computer game that we occasionally get together to play involves various campaigns and missions for soliders (little computer animation thingos) to engage in.... one side attacks...the other defends...you get the picture.

Now we've got together in the past to play and its a great excuse for getting the "lad's" together for food, fun and banter. But this time we decided to "up" it a little and surprise paulo by blending reality with gaming fiction by donning some khakis and borrowing some replica weapons. Was a lot of fun!