Day 6 - Tuesday 19 January - Po Toi - Hong Kong and Singapore 2016

Another day, another island.

Slept til only about 6am.

Breakfast was the usual, although a little earlier. We were actually out the door by 8:45am!

Walked down towards Causeway Bay to catch a bus outside the library - a 42C to Aberdeen. Got a front top seat which was good.

Got to Aberdeen arond 9:30. Hacked some portals while waiting for the 10am ferry to Po Toi.

Fishing boats and buildings in Aberdeen

The ferry is a private ferry, so no Octopus cards. $50HKD each return. Took about an hour to get there.

Buildings in Wong Chuk Hang

Ocean Park

Looking towards Repulse Bay

Hong Kong Satellite Earth Station

Tin Hau Temple, Po Toi

There's not much on the island, and even less in winter. But we were there to do a hike. Starting in the town, around past the Tin Hau temple, a couple of false starts due to inadequate signage, but then up and up and up over the island. Basically the island is a great big lump of granite sticking out of the South China Sea, and it's very exposed. The walk was pretty good and we took our time and took lots of photos.

Maris Tsui Wah Ferry A7663 that we took to Po Toi

Waterfront at Po Toi

Mat Chau island

Flag and dog at Tin Hau Temple

Tin Hau Temple, Po Toi

Granite hills on Po Toi island

Ferry pier at Po Toi, Mat Chau island and ships in the South China Sea

Hong Kong Satellite Earth Station

Granite hills on Po Toi island

Rock on Po Toi island

Stu at Kwoon Yat Pagoda

The second part of the walk, down from the pavilion, was all paved which made it even easier (just a *lot* of steps going down!)

Looking south from the top of Po Toi island

Fishing boats off Po Toi island

Cliffs along the south side of Po Toi island

Stu at an intersection on the footpath on Po Toi

Fishing boats off Po Toi island

Walkway on Po Toi island

Granite rockface on Po Toi island

Rock carvings on Po Toi Island, possibly around 3000 years old
Photo by Stu

Rock carvings on Po Toi Island, possibly around 3000 years old

Ferry and ferry pier at Po Toi
Photo by Stu

Got back to the ferry pier around 13:30 in time to finish our lunch and catch the 14:00 ferry back (there's only one ferry each way per day during the week - and only on Tuesdays and Thursdays). About another hour to get back.

Breakwater in the Aberdeen Channel

Buildings on Ap Lei Chau island

Statue of Queen Victoria at Aberdeen

In Aberdeen we hopped on a bus back to Causeway Bay.

Got back to the hotel about 16:30 but it was about two hours til we were going to meet up with Chris and Anne, so I thought I'd do a quick walk around Victoria Park to do some Ingress missions. Two hours and 8000 steps later... whoops! But did do the "Victoria Park" mission series which looks pretty good in the scanner.

At 18:45 we met Chris and Anne and Bronte and wandered into Causeway Bay - this time to have dinner at Lei Bistro which was pretty good.