Haven't been to Cheung Chau for a while now. So I thought I would just go there to have another look.
Sitting directly opposite to me on the ferry was this young lady, who was reading and then was overcome with drowsiness.
The square in front of the Tin Hau temple appears alive with young people
Two teenage girls in the same style different color sunglasses and white T-shirts, one on a regular bike and the other on a learning bike treading along the newly built West embankment road.
bicycles is the main form of land transport on the island
A fibre glass boat with a broken bottom peeping out at me
A school just got a new coat of paint, getting ready for the start of the coming academic year
The last time I went there, this new road was still under construction. It's a nice leisurely walk.
A temporary structure by workers was brightly painted
Some patterns formed by dragon boats being tied together until the next Dragon Boat Festival.
A drum with a torn top. Perhaps the drummer was too carried away in a moment of frenzy.
A sleeping dragon: its eyes covered.
The new typhoon shelter
Some shrimp trawlers moored along the quayside.
A short respite before the next journey, all tied together for greater stability.
This is how dried shrimps are made. According to the old man engaged in doing so, it just takes about two or three days under the sun for the fresh shrimps to be turned into "shrimp rice".
It was so simple, the ends of the strings forming the net kept tightly in place by some bamboo strips and everything hung at an incline against a wooden crate upon a trolley.
The way to the west embankment was full of flowers placed along the path by the restaurants at the nearside of the road. A yellow allamanda about to bloom
Some red flowers whose name I don't know
More flowers
This one seems to be blooming all alone.
These purple and white paper flowers seem to be blooming all year round. How I wish I had their vitality !
How brightly do these red paper flowers shine under the sun.
i haven'tc been to cheung chau for donkey years ! thanks for taking me there !
回覆刪除is the last pic of flower a bougainvillea??
[版主回覆08/27/2012 17:59:07]It's a very tough flower and normally survives under the most difficult conditions and appears to be able to bloom all year round especially when it feels a lack of moisture in the soil !
[小齊回覆08/27/2012 17:45:22]Paper flower ?? never heard of that, i used to have a huge one in my garden when i was is HK, and it is also very common in mexico city...
i tried to grow one in france, but couldnt really survive the winter......
[版主回覆08/27/2012 17:35:34]My pleasure to share what my camera sees.
Yes, indeed, its a bougainvillea, popularly known as "paper flower" .
very good holiday snaps,
回覆刪除[版主回覆08/28/2012 05:53:58]Thank you. Yours in Quangsi are more interesting.
Really like those prawn they dried on the street.
回覆刪除[版主回覆08/29/2012 01:16:40]Freshly dried " shrimp rice"!
I don't realize Cheung Chau has so many great views. Last time I was there, there were just men everywhere! Your pictures show such a tranquil world there.
回覆刪除[版主回覆08/29/2012 01:18:05]The busy part of the island is concentrated on the centre and the east where you find all the restaurants etc.
Cheung Chau is a 墟、搵日也去櫬熱鬧！ the pictures are wonderful
回覆刪除[版主回覆08/30/2012 12:22:03]Yes it can be a 墟, but not everywhere. It's very relaxing to take a stroll on the island because there are no cars and lorries.