Small streams without much interest. I was “tricked” into going there 😅 For the most hardcore “want to see them all”. Not recommended.

See full screen & the Garmin track.

A few years ago a reader asked me about these streams. Or I better say, he thought 😅 He told me in the comments of Shek Fa stream post “I hope you can also explore 花心坑 (Fa Sam Hang) some time and find suitable exits… The entrance is just 100 m south of your starting point at 石花坑 (Shek Fa Stream), and only that early part of the stream can be seen in the usual maps.” & “Perhaps you underestimate 花心坑 (Fa Sam Hang). Sankala took many pretty pictures and wrote a lot about it (https://www.sankala.hk/2021/08/20210724.html)”. As I had mentioned to him it didn’t look too promising. Unnamed in openstreetmaps, no exit path, approx 100m elevation gain from the closest path above. A few years later it looked the same: Not clear exit on openstreetmap, not clear on the satellite images, non indented contour lines (explained in the navigation post). Nevertheless, I was starting to check more and more obscure streams in the area. So I decided to give it a try.

The starting area was not very promising.

And this is the very lower section of the right stream (1).

Yup. That construction metal house is on the very stream line… Nevertheless I tried to check a bit more of the right tributary. There are some gardened areas, with cute non native trees, old terraces, water gathering structures. But it was completely dry and it did not looked hiked at all. I decided to go dowhill west, through some rustic buildings, towards the stairs that usually hikers use to go up to Buffalo Hill.

From there I went to (2). The bottom of the left stream. The first section (0:30) was more clear than the previous, with quite some pipelines and others that the villagers have set in the stream to gather water. But soon the vegetation started to get very dense, no water, really far away from the nearest hiking path. So I decided to go back down and follow some ribbons that I had seen before. The satellite image does not show any clear stream line. Actually I could even intuit the perpendicular line that crosses the two streams.

So I followed the path and end up on the Right stream again (4 – 1:00). Hmmm… OK, let’s give this one a try. I headed upstream again. Some more pipelines and tiny dams. Less dense. Some little water. There are a few scrambling walls and waterfalls that would require quite some time to look nice. Nothing spectacular. Eventually, the stream gets indistinctive and thorny (6) and I decided to exit (2:42) through the less resistance areas on the hill towards the nearest hiking path. Nevertheless it was dense! I eventually connected with the clear hiking path.

Here you will need to decide where to head. Shortest downhill back to the starting point. In my case, I head up. Upper it gets bushier, but still it is very clear to follow. I did not want to check Buffalo Hill and others and instead I checked a couple of paths that I hadn’t hiked before. The first one going to 石芽背 Shek Nga Pui, bushy but clear mainly downhill. The second to 尖尾峰 Tsim Mei Fung is way more bushy and not specially interesting. So I happily connected with MacLehose Trail and run back to Wong Tai Sin.

By the way. I think I know where the confusion comes from. I think that Sankala was talking about Shek Fa stream itself and not these streams. Once I paid enough attention to their post I could recognize several pics, some very distinctive like this one and definitely it is too much a coincidence that they also exited through the landslide.

Everything you should know before stream hiking.