Lamma Island

The territory of Hong Kong is split up into a few parts with Mainland China at its northern border. Coming south out of China, you would enter the New Territories (which have been "new" for decades now), then Kowloon, which ends at the harbor. South across the harbor is Hong Kong Island.

In the sea around Hong Kong Island are the Outlying Islands, of which there are several larger ones such as Lantau Island (where the international airport and Hong Kong Disneyland is), Cheung Chau, and Lamma Island where people live and commute to Hong Kong and Kowloon.

We took a 30-minute ferry ride to Lamma Island on the Sunday of our Hong Kong trip. As of Saturday, the forecast called for rain but lo and behold, the weatherman was wrong; it was blazing sunshine all day.



Lamma Island is a kind of seaside resort town, except without the resorts. There are beaches, quaint townhomes, narrow streets lined with shops, people on bikes, and restaurants by the seashore.

Oh, and there's a power plant on the far side of the island away from town, you might have noticed that in the above picture.



This is a small temple near the beginning of our hiking route across the island. I'm not sure what religion this is; I know it's not Buddhist or Taoist. The picture on the wall looks kind of like a space alien so maybe it's Scientologist.



Lamma Island is not very urbanized so lots of homes have vegetable gardens in the back, and some of these gardens have fruit trees. Mainly, we just saw bananas and papaya; trees that are mainly tall but not very wide. One house had a lime tree, but we passed it before I had the notion to take pictures of everything. :(



And this is a pink flower tree that Allison liked. Although on closer inspection, we found that the pink "petals" were really leaves and the little white puffs in the middle were the actual flowers. Deceptive!