Tai Tan to TMT (CLG) back to Tai Tan (Aug 22-23)

Aug 22

Tai Tan to TMT

Decided to launch early to avoid the brazen sun.  The VERY HOT weather warning has been blasting continuously in the last few days. 

0451 Fred's (got my feet wet but had to fight my way out of the mud)

0454 Tai Tan (finally started paddling)

0519 Nam Fung Kok

0535 Ocean Point (Kwun Choi Kok)

0559 Flat Island (Ngan Chau)

0605 -00611 Police Barrier (BS, photos, water break)

0708 Dam

0731 Pak Sa Tau Tsui

0758 TMT Slipway (Yuck, yuck, yuck!  My boat is full of fire ants x_x  took me 45 minutes to clean most of them out ... and some of them point-blank refused to leave!)

Very very slow progress because I kept stopping to snap photos.    Besides, the mood of predawn SK is so tranquil and beautiful that it's a capital crime to spoil it with mundane, dreadful things like obsession over speed, postures, breathing, cadence ...

TMT to Tai Tan

1614 TMT (Boy Scout shore)

1636 Pak Sa Tau Tsui

1710 Lo Fu Wat

1745 Tolo Barrier

1831-1840 Ocean Point (mucked around waiting for the sun to set.)

1901 Nam Fung Kok

1923 Sze Tei

1928 Fred's

Aug 23

Tai Tan to TMT

0512 Fred's (Ouch!  Scraped my heel against the barnacles in the dark)

0538 Nam Fung Kok

0557 Ocean Point (Kwun Choi Kok)

061x Flat Island (Ngan Chau)

0645 Police Barrier (Funny, the officer said to me, "hmm, aren't you a little later than usual today?"  . . .  as though I paddle past his station every morning XD)

0732 the Dam

0751 - 0754 Pak Sa Tau Tsui (water break)

0817 TMT Slipway

Very very slow progress again because I kept stopping to snap photos.    This morning, I saw a big jellyfish with 3 fishes in its bell.

TMT to Tai Tan

Had to wait for the squall to pass.  My friends Sam, Esther, and Ling weren't impressed with my decision to paddle home, but I knew the squally thunder wasn't going to linger, so it's not so much that I was at risk of being struck by lightening; it's just a matter of finishing the Tolo Channel before total darkness.

Right, had to race against the sunset, so I snapped very few photos and otherwise tried to race home.  Funny how when you are in a hurry, everybody decides to call and SMS you ... (yes, YOU, kyocera, Cameron, and Carol!)

1703 TMT (Tai Po Boat Club Pontoon)

1723 Pak Sa Tau Tsui

1740 the Dam

1833 - 1835 Tolo Barrier (stopped to get my C-Strobe, and to bail water)

1844 Heung Lo Kok

1855 Flat Island

1858 Mo Chau

1908 Ocean Point (mucked around a little snapping pictures.)

1922 Nam Fung Kok

1947 Sze Tei

1953 Fred's

It's a calculated risk, but it still sucks to have to move my seahorse up the hill in the dark @_@