One of those spots that became Instagram famous for a while but in reality compared with our usual coasteering fun it is like ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Beauty/fun: 2/10 nothing interesting but for the big abandoned fish farm pool. There are a lot of those in the area. But this is just easy to get to by short hiking. No real scrambling and some mud.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 2/10 completely sheltered from swell and wind waves; only frequent boat wakes, with quite some wakeboard speedboats in the area. Almost flat. No swims but yes a few muddy wades.
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & the Garmin track starting from Pak A.
Late November, big swell, force 6 winds, no way we would try a more exposed route in the area. Good old Tai She coasteering is perfect for those conditions.
Once we finished the fun part we went up Tam Shui Left stream and onto the hiking path above the coastline. I was hoping that it was going to be more open than the last time I had hiked it long years ago. Nope. Still, it is quite bushy, not thorny, and clear to follow. Arrive at the Chong Hing Water Sports Centre and head to this pier.
The plan was to continue coasteering, even if the satellite images were far from promising.
Luke directly swam from the pier to the opposite side. In my case, I climbed around the pier and found a hiking path to avoid the bushy water line. There are some slightly interesting dam constructions around initially and nothing more moving forward. Back on the coastline very flat initially, with some trees with roots growing toward the seawater, and
a bit of muddy wade to get to the Po Kwu Wan Embankment 曝罟灣堤圍.
You can find quite some people here on good weather days with newbie hikers struggling to pass the “tricky” sections to stay dry…
You could exit here. There is a clear hiking path connecting back with the family walk further North. In our case, we continued coasteering. Nothing interesting and therefore in this pier in the middle of the image we decided to exit to avoid further muddy sections
and continue on the concrete path
back to the bus stop of Sheung Yiu, pretty close to Pak Tam Chung.
A video in Chinese (with decent subtitles) of the main attraction and several more touristy points to check if you are into that.
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