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Jul 24 -
Highest tide of the year, this morning @ Fisherman's
Pier. Global warming and rising sea levels in action?
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Jul 23 -
This is what happens to a color laser-printed poster
after a few weeks on a rain-lashed, open-air billboard.
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Jul 20 -
What is this contraption that appeared today just off
the Pak Kok ferry pier?
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Jul 19 -
"So heartfelt thanks to One and All. You're on The
Roll Of Honour."
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Jul 14 -
Khachapury, a kind of Georgian pizza, was enjoyed for
late lunch in Just Kitchen.
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Jul 13 -
...an unexploded, 1-foot-long naval artillery shell on
the beach just behind The Waterfront.
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Jul 12 - This
morning after 5:48am.
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Jul 11 -
Liao Ning Aircraft Carrier leaving HK this morning,
viewed from end of Cable Road, Pak Kok.
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Jul 10 -
"Two HK Electric teams have won the first and third
prizes in an international competition..."
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Jul 7 -
Watching the Chin. aircraft carrier Liao Ning
pass through the Lamma East Channel.
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Jul 4 -
Lamma Events Calendar - July '17: http://Lamma.com.hk/
index_events.htm
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Jul 3 -
Lamma Calendar 2017 this month, showing sunset at the
Pak Kok ferry pier.
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Jul 2 -
Two stories from our regular correspondent Nick the
Bookman today:
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Jul 1 -
Flags fluttering high above YSW Main Street...
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If you'd like to know what happened to your and your friends' missing
bikes, parked till today in the YSW Bike Park, and where are they now? Click
above...
P.S. plus another
bike clearance on Aug 10...
Highest
tide of the year, this morning @ Fisherman's Pier. Global warming
and rising sea levels in action?
Just a split second after this photo, my sneakers & socks got flooded and
drenched as well... But it seems well worth it, a small sacrifice to get
this candid shot of the completely unfazed Lamma fisherman.
 
Facebook Reactions and comments started to flood in, like the tide above,
within minutes of me
posting this photo! Even some of our really good local photographers
liked it. ;~}
Within hours, this photo attracted 157 Facebook Likes, 36 Wows, even 12
Loves, a total of 205 Reactions so far; plus 15 shares and 32 comments; plus
an additional 46 reactions in the
Lamma Island Hong Kong group.
This is definitely one of my most
popular photos so far. Nice. Maybe I should submit it to the
Lamma Calendar 2018?
Photo submissions starting soon, after the summer break, to become available
for charity at the
Lamma Fun Day 2017!
P.S. Just got the automatic pop-up below on my Facebook Timeline:
This photo above pushed my total Likes so far over 30,000,
up 1,000 in >1 month.
Nice to get all this feedback on my photos; it helps to improve my still
quite rudimentary photography skills.
This is what happens to a color laser-printed poster after a few weeks on a
rain-lashed, open-air billboard.
It all started as a little local
phpPBB forum
15 years ago, see below. It has grown now into 61,671 posts (classifieds not
counted) and this entire website with thousands of Lamma-zine stories, 15
years of events, photo/multimedia galleries with tens of thousands of
photos, etc.
Is it high time for a complete overhaul, technically and design-wise, a
major relaunch after the summer holidays? Maybe, perhaps...
What is this contraption that appeared today just off the Pak Kok ferry
pier? I took a few smartphone snaps...
CEDD replying to my enquiry a few weeks ago:
"This Office is planning to reconstruct the Pak Kok Pier on Lamma Island.
The proposed pier will be a structure extending from the existing pier and
provide alongside berthing.
The project is now at planning and preliminary design stage. Subject to
the completion of the pre-construction work and availability of funding, it
is striven to commence the works tentatively in late 2019 for completion in
2021.
To facilitate the design work, marine ground investigation works will be
carried out in the vicinity of the existing pier from mid July 2017 for
about two months. Please note that there are no links for this project."
A close-up while passing by on the ferry, showing the marine site
investigation boat transforming into a raised platform:
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One more picture, shot from my flat's rooftop. Is this a new exit ramp for
ferry passengers?
More pictures to follow soon, hopefully together with a sunset like this
(zooming out from the very same vantage point above):
P.S. Just in case you're wondering why the HK Govt. is finally
getting serious about rebuilding this very dangerous ferry pier, have a look
at this Lamma-zine story, 1 year ago.
Local pressure on the Govt. can get results, but only if it's applied by the
"right" people and if they are very patient:
Lamma VIPs @ Pak Kok Ferry Pier
Excerpt from our regular reviewer
Nick the Bookman latest work, adding to his Magnus Opus,
DOWN & UP:
"So heartfelt thanks to One and All. You're on The Roll Of Honour. You
all reaffirmed my belief in the niceness of Lamma folk. Willing to rally
around. Year after year. Marilena and I both love living here. It's a great
community. Look after the children is Rule One. No kids. No future. There
are great support systems in place.
Above all: Lamma is Safe. Which is becoming a scarcer
value globally. I've started coming out of my depression and am
re-thinking my decision not to go to the Island School
Reunion..."
Read the full review...
Khachapury, a Georgian specialty, kind of a
pizza with very soft scrambled egg topping for dunking, was enjoyed for late lunch in Just Kitchen
in YSW yesterday. Georgian specialties in a Chinese fishing
village? Wonders Never Cease, as my former
One of the very few restaurant in all of HK with any specialties
from former Soviet republic Georgia, original home of restaurant
manager Sam, who wrote down the dish name for me.
HK's rare Russian restaurants sometimes have a few Georgian
specialties, but reviews seem mixed.
Here's a fine
SCMP story about Georgian cuisine:
"Ajarian Khachapuri, perfect wet-weather food. A cross
between a canoe-shaped pizza and naan bread, it arrived awash
with cheese and on the top wobbled an almost raw egg, swimming
in a pool of butter."
Yes, that's a perfect description of my lunch yesterday!
Looking forward to Sulguni Rolls, Pkhali, Veal Chakapul or
Pork Odjakhur in our Just Kitchen in the near future, I hope?
Delicious their Khachapury below was, taken home the
leftovers were, and yummy they were, even after reheating...
Big excitement yesterday in our village of Yung
Shue Wan which is usually quite sleepy on a hot summer weekday
afternoon. During his daily
#30for30 YSW beach cleanup, Robert Lockyer discovered an
unexploded, 1-foot-long naval artillery shell on the beach just
behind The Waterfront Bar & Rest.
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Police has been informed and they brought in officers from
Explosive Ordnace Disposal Bureau to check out the
potential danger posed by this artillery shell from World War
II. I tagged along with the Lamma Police Chief Rachel (in casual
attire) and the police officers. Robert writes:
"Police said it was safe and less than 1%
chance of going off as the top (fuse) and inside had corroded
and washed clear over the years. However EOD (bomb squad)
removed it anyhow just to be safe."
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Apple Daily has been informed (not by the
Lamma-zine) and put a little breaking news video online almost immediately:
P.S. Lamma-zine stories re: 2 former bombs/shells found
on Lamma beaches:
2003: Power Station beach
2012: Mo Tat Wan beach
This morning after 5:48am.
Get up early, Lammaites, and get on the rooftop of your Village
House or some other high-enough location, it might well be worth
it!
Best sunrise/sunset views of the year these few weeks!
P.S. One more sunrise album?
Liao Ning Aircraft Carrier leaving HK this morning, viewed
from end of Cable Road, Pak Kok. Click for more pics and
comments:
 
Goodbye photo
shot from the drone live feed that the Lamma policeman and a
friend are watching above. Typically Lamma?
Congratulations to HK Electric for adding yet
another 2 awards to their fast-growing collection! They were so
pleased about these awards ("beaming with pride") that
they issued one of their very informative press releases:
HK Electric Shines in International Competition on Second Life
for Retired EV Batteries
Managing Director
of HK Electric, Mr. Wan Chi-tin (middle front row), seen sharing
in the joy of the teams that won the championship and the second
runner-up, the Best "Viability" Award and Best "Value & Impact"
Award in the International Competition.
"Two HK Electric teams have won the first and third prizes
in the Open Group of an international competition involving the
use of batteries from retired electric vehicles (EVs).
Organised by the Environment Bureau, the competition on
Second Life for Retired Batteries from Electric Vehicles was the
first ever held in Hong Kong. The winning team's proposal on a
hybrid battery energy storage system for an off-grid solar power
system on Po Toi Island also won the Best "Viability" Award and
the Best "Value & Impact" Award.
Managing Director of HK Electric, Mr. Wan Chi-tin, was
beaming with pride when he noted that the two Company teams were
the only local teams among the five finalists."
P.S. 1: There's a solar
power storage system on Lamma's sister island, Po Toi.
I've just learnt this from the press release above ("The
Project Division of HK Electric and PolyU researchers joined
hands to study the application of retired EV batteries in the
solar power storage system on Po Toi Island.").
Got to investigate soon...
P.S. 2:
HK Electric's
e-Bill and Autopay Promotion is still running. Sign up
for a cash incentive and lucky draws.
P.S. 3:
We're organising another
Visit to the Lamma Power Station for Lamma residents,
after a break of a few years:
Sign up for this week-day-only, age 15+ tour next month.
Video by China Daily...
I've been w atching the Chin. aircraft carrier Liao
Ning pass through the Lamma East Channel, zoomed in from my Pak Kok Village
rooftop. Click for photo album and much more info:
Print posters for North Lamma... Want to get some?
Lamma Events Calendar -
July '17: http://Lamma.com.hk/index_events.htm
2017 Lamma Calendar page this month, showing sunset at the Pak Kok ferry
pier. Somebody left an old couch at the pier and my neighbour, The
Mysterious Mr. B, sax player from Thinking Out Loud days (one of
the many bands of ex-Lammaite Chris B of Underground), took the
opportunity to admire the sunset, a very popular pastime at the
sunset-facing North Lamma piers and many a local rooftop.
I've been taking this quick smartphone snapshot, after convincing Mr. B to
pose for me on the couch, and the rest is (Lamma) history now, published for
posterity in the official 2017 Lamma Calendar. All soooo
Typically Lamma, in my humble opinion...
The main organiser behind this
yearly charity project...
"...is happy to announce that the calendar has raised HK$42,500 so far
this year. Donations of $14,166 have been submitted to the three
beneficiaries; The Child Welfare Scheme (CWSHK), Lamma Animal Protection
(LAW), and One Million Words."
By the way, the Lamma-shaped silver pendant, top middle of the calendar, is
part of the hanger I use for the calendar; cast locally by a jewelry maker.
Two stories from our regular correspondent
Nick the Bookman
today:
"So heartfelt thanks to One and All. You're on The Roll Of Honour. You
all reaffirmed my belief in the niceness of Lamma folk. Willing to rally
around..."
Read Nick's two stories...
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