Date: 21 August 2011
Venue: Sai Kung, Hong Kong
The weather was amazingly beautiful: super blue sky with patches of clouds dancing around. Ban-sir nearly killed me when I arrived at the pier, I was about 10 minutes late, but luckily I wasn’t the last one to join this beautiful tour! 3 other students were also late… it was quite comforting :p
It was a truly wonderful experience, to witness the growth of the earth, with the traces left visible to the naked eyes. There is nothing anyone can do but to sigh and praise the wonder of Nature. Hong Kong is one of the best places to admire old rocks - millions of years of work. It wasn’t a very easy journey, with many people trying to get the best view (to shoot pictures) of those rocks on a BOAT! Chan-sir had to remind people to keep the balance of the boat :) Sometimes it wasn’t so easy but it was always fun
Look at the sea! The serenity of it and how small we humans are! How can we ever fight with the nature? How would we stand a chance? Compare to the vast of the universe, we merely are dusts.
Fishing has never been a hobby of mine, I suppose I will never understand those people!
Standing on the deck, my seasickness almost drown me! Poor Chan-sir was really seasick! You can see many our my classmates shooting at the rocks and the imbalance of the boat! :) Apart from our boat, there are little boats like that sailing next to us, just in case anyone wants to land. They charge you a small fee though - not sure how much, we didn’t really use their service.
You can see “The Heart of Hong Kong” in the picture on the right. It was a natural mountain with the shape of a heart :) Very romantic place, isn’t it? We stayed there for a while to take pictures. It was like another world - to land finally, my poor head!
The picture on your left is our group of people, haha, every one was very busy engaging in their own business! On the right was a team of mountaineers, they were well equipped and looked like they were really experienced!
Reflections. Anna & Ricky. Dr Wong. Chan-sir. :)
Since we were all taking pictures on the boat, all our pictures are more or less the same - depends on where you actually shot at of course. After we landed, our techniques, equipment, i.e. the model of cameras and lenses, from all these things you can tell good photographers from the bad. Of course most of us are only amateurs, but some of us do take very nice pictures. My pictures are not as impressive as I thought but they are not bad of course. Going to see those rocks on a boat is not a every-day experience, it was my first time to explore this part of Hong Kong, it was so amazing! I have enjoyed it and was so glad I didn’t throw up. When I was shooting (with all my concentration), I thought little about the sea, but after a while my head just went spinning. Haha luckily I didn’t embarrass myself!
Last… here is a picture of me - sunburnt horribly :) Picture by Anna (yes, I looked awful!)
