Shek it O-ut

On Sunday i found the time to get myself a bus to Shek O Countrypark, a place that attracts people with the opportunity to go paragliding, surfing or hiking as well as just relaxing at one of the several seafood restaurants or the bars at the beach.

First i checked out the beach, where i sat about an hour just photographing the water with the highest possible shutterspeed, which looks (in my opinion...) pretty cool
(the higher the shutterspeed, the clearer the picture when you shoot fast moving motifs like water in this case)


I roamed a bit along the beach and then went by bus to the beginning of the shek o trial, that's a 8,5 km long path through the whole country park that takes about 4 hours;
as i hadn't that much time, i just went somehow about an hour following a path, then i got a precious advice from a hiking woman to go back over a path called dragon's back, because it leads over several tops of hills where you got an amazing view over the whole country park and some outlying islands.
Paragliders used the warm winds to sit in the air, seemed pretty cool and relaxing to me, wish i could have hung over there too but got at least some pretty shots for you.

Finally the trial lead me back to the bus station, so i went down to shek o villaage to get some dinner; found a thai seafood restaurant where i ate rice with mixed seafood, vegetables and coconut pieces, came served in in a big coconut and tasted pretty good.

The following three days, I spent most of the time in visiting the places of HK in random, for example i went to Hung Hom with the ferry, just because i didn'nt knew the ferry yet
hung hom was actually only a common residential area altough they got a huge mall looking like a cruise ship (and of course it seems some kind of weird, when you suddenly see a cruiser amid those blocks of flats...).
so i went to several shops, mandy has showed me before and visited places like causeway bay or mong kok again, just to say good bye to hong kong and to take some last pictures (martin, i finally made enough fotos from the bag-goldfishes) and of course tried to spend as much time as possible with my friends, i eventually won't see them again for years.

Wednesday night i finally left Hong Kong and as you can read i my previous post i wrote on that day; i wasn't too glad about my return.
now that i'm back in vienna, i'm at least happy to see my family and friends again, but everything seems so small, empty, silent, slow and whatever else (at least it's not too bad that vienna is far more silent then HK)
i think i'll need some time till i accustom to this new old home, but i'm afraid, that won't happen till spring, because the weather conditions here are just freezing cold (i don't say anything against snow, but if it becomes a snow storm, then it starts getting nasty)

ah, by the way, now that i'm able to load all my pictures i've taken, onto my computer, i nnounce happily that i took about 1500 pictures in total, whereof about 790 are at least good (not blurry, not overexposured and so on) plus really well done 135 favorites (you can find most of them in the posts of hongthekong)

so, finally, this is the last narrative post on hong the kong, of course, i'll continue posting, but now that i can't travel through HK anymore, i'll write about hk in overall (and of course you can send me your questions at val.htk@gmail.com ), so check back to read about the Octopus Card, nightlife, eating and hopefully far more...