Continuing with my goal of checking all the rocky coastline, another so so route with too much wading & only a few pretty & fun sections.
- Beauty/fun: 4/10 nice water with tons of fishes, a few nice granite rocks. Too flat with tons of wading in the second section.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 3/10 minimal scrambling required and never high, tons of wading, almost full protection from swell and wind waves.
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & the Garmin track.
On the satellite images it didn’t look too promising, but I gave this section of coastline a try. MTR to University Station, walk to the pier (Northernmost of the three around) and at 8:30 on the ferry way to Ko Lau Wan. Early December, temperature below 20C and a bit windy up there, I decided to keep dry initially. For that I avoided getting into the water next to the pier. The only way, unless you want to trespass, to keep on the coastline.
Go up the concrete path for a little while and find my way down to the rocks. Video.
Fishermen from the get go. I could see big schools of small fish moving and jumping around full route. Initial pretty granite rocks with Sharp Peak in front. Beach from where we departed to Port Island a couple of years ago.
In this first section there are different colored and type rocks. Easy scrambling or simple hiking. A few sandy areas. Wardhaven is on the way. House with fenced (illegal?) small piece of coastline.
I passed as fast as possible and continued towards Sham Wan 深灣. Even if I started with low tide and almost no waves at all,
time to get wet. The vegetation gets into the sea in this bay with the fishermen village. Only on the Southern part I was able to get back on the rocks continuously.
This second section though requires quite more wading after. There are a just few proper scrambling spots around the pipeline that provides water to the village. Marked on the map where the water comes from. A small stream not marked yet in Openstreetmaps.
A lot of old abandoned boats and others. Peculiar rock formations, as if they were carved. Another pier and more buildings under construction (may be another Wardhaven) and arrive at Chek Keng Pier.
Concrete starting from here. I took a look to the next mini peninsula. But too muddy initial part.
and a bit late already. So I decided to run to Wong Shek pier instead.
So I have the Sun resort area + the long muddy wade or swim to Wong Shek pending for another time.
Very likely that there is nothing interesting there.
A video of the fish you can see around, including a lion fish! (0m47sec)
And tons of smaller ones. Sardine like big schools, yellow black stripped Sergeants (I think it is how they are called) and others more common in Hong Kong.
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