Black Point (爛角咀) is the Westernmost point of New Territories. A lot better than expected coasteering although with tons of trash.

See full screen & the Garmin track of the day coasteering and the initial day jogging and coasteering on my own.

I had never been in the area and decided to give this part of the coastline a try on my own in trail running and fast coasteering mode. It was good enough to bring friends later. Therefore you will see pictures of both days. In case this creates any confusion.

If you want to simplify your outing you will need to take a taxi/Uber till the parking next to the Black Point Power Station. Walk on the left side

of this water channel.

And in no time you will be on the coastline.

Initial scrambling is quite easy.

With some easy traverses.

This is the only spot with any kind of difficulty and therefore there were several ropes set by hiking groups that do this first North part as a dry coastal walk.

To do so you better go on low tide and/or a waveless day.

Just a little further Black Point itself. That rock getting into the sea.

Just above the faint path heading up the hill. Aforementioned hikers come through here. Not easy to navigate path, as you can see in the bottom of the post.

The second coasteering section requires a bit more serious scrambling.

Here for example getting into a spot where weaker coasteerers might want to wade.

Otherwise you either need to head up through the dense vegetation and back down. Or a short traverse and descend to the rock using 💩y structures left by previous groups (highly discouraged, bring your own rope instead).

Moving forward tons of trash

combined with nice rocks…

In front another section

with set ropes that we didn’t use.

Fun short slab.

It was the first day back in action after injury for Alexa. Therefore she was looking for the easiest options while Diana was

testing all the bouldering opportunities en route.

There are a couple of spots where to keep dry we needed to climb up

and go down latter.

Wave looking rocks.

Drone footage for size reference of the biggest boulder.

Just next to it this rock tree combination.

We also climbed to the boulder.

And down again the same way. It is easiest past on its left (North) side, with slightly sandy final surface. From the opposite side doesn’t look so impressive.

The last slab is here.

If you want to do it easy, just before you can find a rope guiding you up on the left side.

If with good grip shoes you can traverse the slab (she was with Five Tens and was able to do it easier, I barely did it with my not so grippy Adidas Terrex) and arrive to the industrial side.

Once on the road Alexa decided to walk back to the Lung Kwu Tan Terminus. Diana and me continued on to the beach.

We started to see a few stray dogs. Initially did not look like a problem, till they become more than a dozen and not happy with us walking on “their territory”. Therefore we wade a bit and scramble back on the rocks.

They didn’t feel comfortable following in either, so easily solved problem.

Moving forward the scrambling is easy with a few sandy areas among rock sections.

This, below, is the only high scramble. But easily passable

before arriving at.

the very black sand beach of Lung Kwu Tan.

If you would want to do this route only with public transportation LKT terminus is the furthest point where you can arrive at. You would need to do a long loop. For reference a photoblog including the following route: Lung Kwu Tang – Dolphin Lookout – Bush walking down to the beach – Industrial section – up Fei Kei Tung South path – down to Black Point – coasteering to the Northside – back to Lung Kwu Tang.

Video of the ABCat guys with the hiking path only… Kinda… They did not arrive at Black Point… Includes some drone footage where you can see a little part of the coastline.

Everything you should know before coasteering.