Short wide stream with photogenic rocks and relatively decent flow for the area that it is in, small hills. You can add it to the coasteering under.
- Beauty/fun: 4/10 if the stream wouldn’t be so far from the civilization it could be a good cute option for beginners. But being so short doesn’t deserve on its own the long logistic required. A nice gorge like tiny structure, pretty rocks, decent flow.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 3.5/10 short and with the hiking path going up relatively close to the stream. No real high scrambling required. Some bushy sections.
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & the Garmin track.
After Pak Lap creek I wanted to give this tiny stream also a try. Once I was in the area, with so much rain and with plenty of time. So I jog chatting with a trail runner I found on my way before descending towards Tung A. The very civilized path crosses the stream a couple of times on its way down to the coastline. Eventually I arrived to the pergola at coastline level
and the bottom of the stream next to it. Video.
I went back up a bit on the path to avoid the completely overflowed initial section and I found fast (5) a way to go down again. Even with the huge rain of the day it was relatively easy to go up the stream carefully.
Very simple stream. All the waterfalls are man made structures. A few dilapidated piepelines. Pretty rocks. At (6) the main fork. I could see that hikers had gone up on the left side. So I continued and after tiny bushy section I arrived in a few minutes to the tiny bridge (7) where I exited.
You could continue up. Actually, I could see up a waterfall. More or less on the South of the Viewing point marked on the map. But checking the offline map and satellite images the exit looked as bad or worse than in Pak Lap creek. So decided to pass and just jog back to Pak Tam Chung. Partly on the empty MacLehose trail section 1 (most weekends with heavy taxi traffic). Partly on a hiking path I really like, checking potential streams to test another day. Once in PTC I realized that it was going to take me almost the same time if I jog a bit further. So long training day with my heavy backpack on. Completely unnecessary. That day I could have taken a mini bus in any spot. Almost no one in the area.
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