Hiking to Tai Long Wan

(October 8th, Sun.)Rohit, Shamik, and I decided to take a trek out to the New territories and tackle the hike to Tai Long Wan. Having heard that its beach is pretty incredible, and looking for a small challenge for the afternoon, we grabbed some Thai lunch in Sai Kung proper and then flagged down a taxi to take us to Sai Wan Ting, which was the start off point.



The hike started off pretty gentle, with a nice view of the east bay and river with some small islands.



However, the pace picked up, and the tail end was a pretty steep climb and descent, up and down. In all, one way it was 1 hr directly to the beach, although there were a good number of sub-trails, and an alternate path back. Since we left in the afternoon, we decided not to take the subtrails, since they could be 1-2 hrs each way on their own.

A complete panorama of the initial hike, stitched together from 4 frames via Photoshop.


We found these curious looking little egg type things on the beach (which by the way, was pleasant, but the day was a little grungy, so we didn't play in the water). We figured they might be related to this little crunchy critter who was scurrying among them.



On the way back, we ran into this character:

I picked up a dead butterfly on the ground and threw it into the spider's web, and we watched our own pet Charlotte destroy it.


To wrap things up, we went back to Sai Kung to grab dinner. We had Indian food, which I'm quickly starting to appreciate much more. We also came upon this gem:



Yeah, we're juvenile.