Discoveryland

On Wednesday we all went for a visit to Discovery Bay North Plaza.

It is an interesting place.  Discovery Bay is a car-free development, so the residents walk, bike, or take a horse and buggy.

Another attraction is a full-size replica of HMS Bounty of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' fame (link), which is often moored at the pier here, although it is sometimes hired-out for corporate events.   It givens me a buzz to see this tiny ship (only 90ft long and 24ft wide) and wonder how it could accommodate a crew of 44 and their provisions, and sail around the world.

 And even more amazing to recall how Captain Bligh survived the mutiny which occurred in the ocean 1,300 miles west of Tahiti:   "eighteen mutineers set Bligh afloat in a small boat with eighteen of the twenty-two crew loyal to him.  In an extraordinary feat of seamanship, Bligh navigated the 23-foot (7 m) open launch on a 47-day voyage to Timor in the Dutch East Indies, equipped with a quadrant and pocket watch and without charts or compass. He recorded the distance as 3,618 nautical miles (6,701 km; 4,164 mi)".

The mutineers turning Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift from His Majesty's Ship Bounty, 29 April 1789. By Robert Dodd.

But the purpose of our trip was to take Hannah to Discoveryland, Hong Kong's largest indoor playground.

And give her a good bounce

The rest of us mainly sat in the cafe and chatted

While Hannah enjoyed activities like the climbing wall

and more climbing wall.