Sunday 17 November 2013

Tap Mun

In mid-Nov we decided to take advantage of the lovely autumn weather and take a boat trip to Tap Mun ('Grass Island'), one of the outlying islands in the north-east New Territories (wiki link).

The ferry service departed from a pier at the Science Park, just up the road.  The 2 hour route was north-east out the entrance of the Tolo harbor and then east to Tap Mun.  Most of the coast is country park and the ferry made several stops along the way to drop-off or pick-up hikers.

Looking back to Science Park.

Ma on Shan

I was surprised to see that the entrance to the harbor was largely closed off by a boom leaving just a narrow entrance controlled by a naval check-point.

Looking back to the entrance of Tolo Harbour and the check-point.

Tap Mun island

Looking south from Tap Mun

Disembarking from the ferry at Tap Mun

We only had about an hour on the island as we wanted to take the return ferry to be home by late afternoon to prepare Hannah for school.  But we had time to visit the look-out point and meet some locals.


Looking south-east from the lookout.

Camp site on the lookout


Return trip.  Looking south to the entrance to the Shing Mun river.

Ferry pier at Science park.





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