Friday, February 17, 2012

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.

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