Lamma Island

This is the second largest island out of the four that we've visited and hiked in HK. It's most prominent feature is the coal power plant which is HKs largest source of energy. Next to the massive powerplant is one windmill (HK is going green!). This was our second trip here, we wanted to explore the south side of the island, since we missed out on it the first time, and enjoy another yummy seafood lunch :) So off we went...

The hike started out great, slight incline, mostly in the shade, walking through jungles, past banana plantations and across a couple of lovely beaches. There were even some delapidated houses with jungles in the living room. More enourmous neon spiders were around too but we're used to them by now ("just duck under the tent-sized webs"). Then came the killer: neverending stairs up and over a mountain in the middle of the day, no shade, no wind, heat coming from above and below. I swore never to hike again. Luckily it was a short-lived promise (but we did take a 5 day break from hiking) :)

==> Me attempting to create shade

Our exhaustion was rewarded with a lobster lunch! I also got to try abalone for the first time... which, ive decided, is overrated. It has the consistency of an eraser (yes, i have bitten into one of those too). Lobster however is always scrumptious.