A Little More Island Hopping - Cheung Chau

After getting back to the Central Piers, we met up with Gallagher and Amy and hopped on the next ferry to Cheung Chau. Cheung Chau was on the other side of Hong Kong Island (away from Lamma, towards Macau). It is also a fishing island with no motorized vehicles. This island was WAY more developed then Lamma Island. There was a 7-Eleven, a zillion grocery stores, street markets, etc.

 Wellcome is my favorite grocery store here. This one smacked you in the face when you got off of the ferry.

This is our ferry.

Fishing boats!

Street signs that point to different tourist attractions

Temple

So beautiful and ornate :D

 I love the conical incense!

 Lovely... Nothing more scenic then a slaughter house

 Josh on his bike. We rented bikes for two hours. For the first hour, Gallagher carted Amy and I around in a carriage bike. For the second hour, we all had our own bikes.

 Bikes were not such a good idea on one side of the island... We literally walked them for about 30 minutes of our first hour. This was one view after climbing up a steep hill.

 You know. Just chilling on top of the highest peak of a tiny island.

Gal planking...

 Not sure whats going on with the awkward lean thing, but a lovely view of an uninhabited, geologically beautiful island behind me. Even with the not great day, still a breath taking view in person!

After leaving this point, there appeared to be a lovely route down to another viewing point. Therefore, Gallagher convinced Amy and I to get back onto the bike so he could give us a ride down. Then, the path narrowed... Our rather wide bike barely fit and there was a cliff off to one side. Gallagher tried his very best to stay on the path. He did a pretty good job. THEN... drop of death... This was still the path, however was extraordinarily steep and with three people, we had A LOT of momentum and Gallagher lost control and Amy and I actually thought we might die. But good news!!! After bloody-ing his heels and me destroying the tread on my left sneaker, we were able to regain control and stop the bike at the bottom of the slope.

 Soooooooooooo once we got to that point, we decided going back that same route would be suicide. Turns out there was no other way down... except for this staircase... which was really long... and the bike started to fall apart. Anyways, this is Gallagher trying to walk/ride the three person bike down the stairs. After finally reaching sea level, we went back to the bike shop and traded in the three person bike for three individual bikes. Then we went to the other side of the island to try and find the mini Great Wall. In the process we got stuck in pedestrian traffic, passed by a funeral and biked up a steep hill that had signs for no biking. After realizing that we had a limited time before we had to pick up Andrew from the ferry, we decided to try and find the beach and then return the bikes. At the beach, we learned that Gallagher and three-year old British twins are essentially identical. Gal would run towards the water then run back as the waves came in. Literally 50 meters to the left, these two adorable twins were doing the same thing. Gal didn't notice until we pointed it out to him... Then we returned the bikes and met Andrew. Then we had a wonderful seafood dinner.

This is one potato, cut into a curl and stuck on a stick and stuck in a fryer. Essentially, a stick of freshly made potato chips. You then had the option to sprinkle different flavors on it. I had cheese and curry. So yummy!