A Little Island Hopping - Lamma Island

On Saturday, several of us went island hopping. The hopping portion was spur of the moment as the original plan was to spend the day at Lamma Island. Lamma Island was cool but we hit all the major things in the first half of the day. So a few of us opted to hop on a ferry to a different island!
We left our apartment at 8:30 in the morning to go to Central to catch a ferry to Lamma Island.

 This was our first impression of Lamma Island. A giant, lovely coal-burning power plant. Isn't it pretty? This power plant provides the power for all of Hong Kong Island...

 Fishing Village

 Wind turbine :D

 Ferry Pier

 Fishing sampans (their little boats)

This is for mommy and auntie Linda :)

 Street sign. Did I mention that their are no vehicles on Lamma Island? It is strictly footpaths and bicycles

 Temple

 Incense cones

 OK so I lied. We found ONE motorized vehicle. This teeny-tiny ambulance!

 I liked that this is a church "hang out"
From here, we started to hike across the island. It took about an hour and a half. We stopped several times for pictures and to check maps (we wanted to find the caves to explore in!).

KITTY!!!!!!!!! There were actually a lot of dogs on Lamma Island...

 This is what you can NOT do on the beach. No flying discs! Paul was very upset...

Pretty beach

 I love my letters <3

 Look how huge that plant is!!!

 Fishing village with cargo ships in the background

 Another fishing village :)

 Cave!

 Inside the cave. What you see is what you get. These caves were not very big or exciting. Apparently this is where the fishermen store their boats during typhoons.

Puppy!

The next series of pictures are what I spent $350 HKD on (over $40 USD)! It was expensive but SO GOOD. We got a giant seafood buffet essentially meant for 6 to 8 people. There were 6 of us. We left no survivors...

 Steamed scallops with minced garlic. Seriously, the best thing EVER!!!

 Salt and Pepper Prawn

 This is our order!

 Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

 Greg using the finger bowl. Not sure what it actually is but it is magical. After peeling apart those prawn, our fingers were so sticky and covered in every manner of pepper, fried bits, prawn brains, you name it. Dunk your hand in the finger bowl and instantly clean!

 Sweet and sour fish. Yup, if you thought that was a fried fish head, you were right! It was so good...

 Steamed abalone... Kinda weird and bland tasting but I'd eat it again.

 Seafood fried rice

Rainbow seafood restaurant! This is where we ate our delectable lunch. After eating, they provided us with a free ferry ride back to Hong Kong Island.

2.6.2012 - 2.10.2012

So I got really behind in this blog... and I can't honestly remember what I did during this week... Soooo yea...........................
I know I worked a lot... I presented on Wednesday...
But that is about it...

Mai Po Nature Reserve

 On Sunday, we went to the Mai Po Nature Reserve and went on a bird watching tour. This was arranged for us by the marketing coordinator of the Mai Po Nature Reserve who we interviewed for our project. He believed that they were conducting ecotourism on the reserve and he wanted us to experience it. We took one of their few English-guided tours and got into the reserve for free. The reserve is way up North so it took awhile to get there.

This is Amy, licking sugar cane paper...