Do you like small sea caves and tunnels? This is for you. Long day out if self supported, a lot more manageable with boat approach.
- Beauty/fun: 7.5/10 aforementioned caves, some of the characteristic Geopark rock formations, clear water, the rehab center area is a bit messy, you might want to swim long around.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 8/10 if doing it our way. Long swims in heavy boat traffic channel, some sections very exposed to swell and wind waves, long and with no early exits.
- Map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & the Garmin track.
As already mentioned in the previous post we started in Pak Lap. Taxi, fast hike downhill, get everything ready at the beach and initial coasteering on the peninsula. Fast. A bit more than an hour. Swim cross the channel and on Town Island.
In no time we were scrambling on nice rocks.
Nice big columns, although not as big nor espectacular as around Po Pin Chau. A bit later arriving at the North East section, the less protected.
Some fun (because we were safely high enough) waves there even if the forecast was not so big.
Once you turn S-SW you are back into more protected area and where the caves start. First this
double-entry cave/tunnel. Video with it.
More scrambling and a very peculiar arch.
Definitely there is a good reason why several people had mentioned caves in this island. Quite a few.
None specially deep, but photogenic anyhow. Denvy learned the trick 😉 taking us the last pic from within the second last.
A tiny arch and easier scrambling arriving
at the Recovery center.
The employees there saw us and they were not happy… They couldn’t understand initially that we had, for real, swum to the island, coasteered all around and we were just looking for the narrow part of the channel to swim back. So we were escorted up till the pier. Coasteer a little bit more and swim to the oposite shore.
In both ways I was pulling Summer. Her main goal was to spot boats as far as possible and rise the “flag” (foldable running pole, with my orange t-shirt hooked with a small carabiner) to make us visible and avoid any accidents. Speed boats, big yachts, jet skis… Dangerous channel. But it worked perfect, surprised faces of the speedboat drivers included 😄 they approached us slowly to see what we were doing.
Another video with more of the caves and a higher perspective of the full island.
Little of Saikung yet to explore!
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