No more than potential side fun if you are in Bride’s Pool, Plover Cove area. Low flow stream with a nice wall and several pools en route.
- Beauty/fun: 3.5/10 the main wall must look nice after some serious rain. Low flow stream within the woods. It requires long logistics and some serious bush walk and hiking to do it all. Low reward for the effort required.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 5/10 mainly because of the bushwalking. The stream navigation was simple and with low scrambling required. The exit navigation not so much. Trust the GPS and be ready for some dense bush walking before you are able to connect with the main path. Relatively remote.
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & the Garmin track.
On our way from Ma Niu Ho towards Bride’s Pool, there were a couple of potential streams to check. I decided to go for the one further West. Too hot a day. Better keep the hiking on the very exposed Reservoir main path to the minimum. So we continued on the shaded lower path next to the main stream. Even “shortcutting” and cooling down in it before we arrived at the bottom of Shek Shui Kan 石水澗.
We directly jumped into the water (#5 on the map) and went up in the stream. Although there is a hiking path next to it for a long while. I guess originally created for the maintenance of a water catching structure and pipeline. Video.
In the lower section there are bamboos around and small pools. At 0:49-1:05 the aforementioned water catching pools. Just after the stream improves a little bit until you arrive at the main wall (1:27). It must look very pretty after some significant rain. Not in our case.
After the main wall (7) there is a tributary that we didn’t check. It might be the shortest exit. In our case, we hiked on the right of the wall and we went back again to its top immediately. A little later the slope decreases and you get within the woods. I could see on the map a potential exit (8) but it was extremely bushy. Therefore we continued for a while and exit through (9). Significantly newer ribbons there. Bush walk but relatively easy to follow. As mentioned in Ma Niu Ho post, in case of doubt retrace and spend time trying to find ribbons, hikers marks like branches and bush cut with pruners or a machete. That time investment is worthwhile. Opening a new path through dense vegetation in that area is way more time consuming and physically demanding.
Eventually (2:30) we arrived at the main path. Still 40 minutes more of uphill and downhill hike that Ben struggled a bit with under the heat.
Good training 😉 At Wu Kau Tang terminus we took the bus back home (only available on Sundays and public holidays).
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