Lamma Island

Yum, Yum!  We thought you might be hungry so we thought we would start this post on an item you might consider making sometime. Doesn't that look like a great menu item?

Several of the senior missionary couples decided to go to Lamma Island yesterday.  Here is a photo from the ferry pier looking at a pretty cool sailboat that was docked there that we saw before we got on the ferry.

This the beautiful Stonecutter's bridge that we passed while on the ferry. It's total length is 5,236 feet, the middle span is 3,340 feet, the clearance is 241 feet above the water and the two towers are 978 feet tall just in case you want to know.

Here's looking back at Hong Kong in the distance. We traveled 22 kilometers or about thirteen and a half miles to get to the island which was about a thirty minute ride.

Everywhere there were so many different kinds of ships and boats that we passed.

 

We saw a lot of little fishing boats as we got closer to the island.

Welcome to Lamma Island.  If you want to read about the island, click on this link: Lamma Island

There were many little fish farms in the bay by the island.

Before lunch, we decided to take a hike.  It is very beautiful there and the foliage reminds us of Hawaii.  The temperature reading was 93 degrees  Fahrenheit (record high temperature for the day), the humidity was at 63 percent.  Calculated with the heat index, the weather station said it felt like 114 degrees. We can believe that because our clothes were soaked completely through with sweat. Actually, every day now is really really hot and really really humid and every day when we walk back from the office our clothes are soaked.

Here's a little orchard of papaya trees, sugar cane, etc. that we saw while walking, too.

Also, we thought you might consider painting this mural on your house.

Here are some of the views from higher up on the hill.

On the trail we passed this little fruit-snack kind of stand and we just had to post this because these people are doing what they can to be self-reliant; just like we teach the sisters in our classes for those who are planning to open some type of little business when they go home to the Philippines.

There was a sign posted by this cave that said that the Kamikaze cave held strategic importance during the Second World Ward for Japan's Hong Kong-based 'kamikaze team' .  they concealed speedboats here to be deployed on suicide missions against Allied shipping.

We saw some people out enjoying the water. Notice the umbrellas.  People use them in the sun a lot here like they did in Japan.

Copied and pasted from the guidebook: You 

will see Tin Hau temple near pier in Sok 

Kwu Wan village. Its history dates back to 

1826 when it was built and later, in 2004, it 

was restored after a fire.

It is a small building and it keeps a rather 

modest facade with distinguished Chinese 

architecture and detail.The temple is 

dedicated to Tin Hau, the protector of 

fishermen.

Here's Elder Chandler thinking about lunch.  We ate at the Shark's Fin Seafood Restaurant.

The next few photos show what we were going to have for lunch.

On the right by Gary is Jim Sheffield, son of the high school seminary teacher from Springville. (Maybe some of Carol's siblings might have known him there.) He and his wife came to visit her sister, Sister Nielsen, whose husband, Elder Nielsen is also from Springville.

Here's one of the dishes we had.  He's looking at you!  We also had clams, calamari, scallops, shrimp, chicken, sweet and sour pork, bok choi, watermelon, and fried rice with ham and shrimp. 

We met this sweet lady who is a member of the church.  She came over to our table when she saw our missionary name tags to say "Hi".  She is from the UK and she is attending school in Hong Kong for the summer.  She was happy to see us.

After the dinner we walked about some more before the ferry boat arrived. This looked like a Banyan tree so we took a photo.

Here comes the ferry!

It was time to go get on and leave the beautiful Lamma Island. As you can see, Lamma Island isn't far from the south side of Hong Kong Island.  This area is known as Aberdeen.

Fortunately, it was air conditioned. Here's some of the group inside the ferry.

We're back after our pleasant "three hour cruise". (Does that sound like Giligan's Island?)

This is the International Finance Center.  The shorter building in the middle is the "baby IFC" at only around 40 stories.

Residential towers in Kennedy Town on the Southwestern side of Hong Kong Island.

We had to get a photo of this boat because it seemed like such a contrast between it and the modern skyscrapers here.  

We thought we would end with a photo of these two sweet real sisters who are in our family home evening group.  The one on the right has been less-active in church but we are happy that she is now attending family home evening with us.