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Clouds!
Aug 30
- Many excellent photographers are calling Lamma home. Case in point:
Rob
Aldridge!
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Full-Moon Sunrise
Aug 24
- 5:54am today, another impressive sunrise over Pak Kok Shan.
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Bridge to a Pier
Aug 22 -
The temporary pier in Pak Kok Village has just been dismantled section by
section.
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Huge Bugs
Aug 13 -
The bugs are growing really huge on Lamma! Beware!
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5 Lamma Ferries
Aug 8
- A most comprehensive and helpful guide on taking a ferry to Lamma.
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Aug 31:
So many Lamma-zine stories,
photos, galleries and forums
have been published over the
years of Andy's Seafood Rest.
and its ancient predecessor
Lamcombe.
Celebrating their great
reopening close to Powerstation
Beach on Aug 1, see above, I've
searched our 20-year Lamma
archives. Some of the very best
Lamma-zine stories have been
featuring our favourite Lamma
restaurant:
Photo gallery of the brand-new
Andy's Seafood Rest.
coming very soon!
Discussion in my FB Profile
has started already.
Aug 30:
Many excellent photographers are
calling Lamma home. Case in
point:
Rob Aldrige, take a
bow! There's even a rainbow in
that amazing pre-storm cloud
formation over YSW!
Two more from Rob: one of so
many photos of the YSW ferry
pier, but rarely ever with a
cloud formation as amazing like
this at sunset! Plus a full moon
scene with night clouds.
Aug 25:
Artwork by Lamma's master
illustrator
Ben Appleby!
Aug 24:
5:54am today, another impressive
sunrise over Pak Kok Shan,
Aberdeen on HK Island in the
background.
An almost-full moon plus a
reddish sky and clouds in the
opposite direction at the same
time. I love our house's
rooftop! We have full access
even though we rent only the
1/F. It's great to have
wonderful house mates up and
down-stairs. One couple is a
longtime Lamma-zine supporter
and found their flat via the
Lamma-zine advert I put up, free
of charge for our great
landlord's family.
 But we're currently the only 2
tenants in this village house,
as the other 2 retired couples
have been overseas for the last
several months. I'm watering the
upstairs plants and they let me
use their washing machine as
ours is out of order for now.
Great house mates!
Our house is a rare 3-party
house in our village, as 6 out
of our 7 neighbouring village
houses are all occupied by
single families renting or
owning the entire building.
That's despite the numerous
severe challenges in raising a
family in an area without any
shops, restaurants, schools or
infrastructure besides basic
power & water. Even a reliable
low-speed Internet or just a
mobile phone signal is lacking
in many houses here.
The high number of children and
pets (most of our neighbours)
here attests to the very pet-
and child-friendly community
sticking together, helping each
other out in any way needed.
It's partially out of necessity
as shops and basic services are
missing, so you often have to
ask neighbours for any urgent
stuff and help. The local
WhatsApp group is buzzing with
so many messages!
Aug 22:
The temporary pier in Pak Kok
Village has just been dismantled
section by section, starting at
the entrance. A footbridge has
been constructed to give the
workers access to the temporary
pier. See below.
In 1+ year's
time this HK$72.4-million
side-docking pier will be
completed, hopefully. Check back
here for progress reports.
Learn more about this
3-year project.
P.S. Sep 1:
"Pak Kok Prison"?
The latest addition to the new
ferry pier construction site
entrance on the old pier!
They're really trying hard to
keep us unruly residents out.
What's so precious or strange in
there? It's making us curious
now, as before we didn't really
care.
Aug 21:
18:30h yesterday:
Our regular
ferry on the daily "sunset
cruise" from YSW to Central, HK
Island. Another fabulous,
automatic photo from the
YSW ferry pier webcam
atop the YSW ferry pier, set up
by the HK Observatory, updated
every 5 minutes.
This morning, 0945h:
For more photos, including my
gallery of the very best webcam
shots,
click here.
Aug 20:
Big tyres can be found
occasionally on Lamma's shores,
too heavy to move away by our volunteer beach
cleaners! But they could be
reused as bumpers outside boats.
Some were even moved up a hill
to be used for tyre-flipping or
hitting them with a sledge
hammer during boot camps. Great
fun, as I can attest from
personal experience!
See more about
the great work of our persistent
volunteer beach cleaners, headed
by
Living Lamma's
Stanley Chan.
Plus a drone video about the
beauty of Lamma's shoreline:
Aug 16:
Aug 13:
 
(Observatory's automatic
webcam atop YSW ferry pier,
pointed at sunset, updated every
5 mins.)
The bugs are growing really huge
on Lamma. Beware! Even incoming
ferries can't be safe from these
huge monsters. Never mind rare
snakes, centipedes, boars, wild
dogs, the real daily dangers on
Lamma are bugs, especially the
ever-present, annoying, vexing,
blood-thirsty mosquitos!
Occasionally, the webcam catches
even bigger bugs. Another, quite
frequent medical emergency
evacuation flight, because the
local medical services are
severely limited on Lamma. If
you get bitten by one of our
huge bugs you might end up on
one of those EVAC flights!
Aug 8:
A most comprehensive and helpful
guide on taking a ferry to
Lamma, written for HK newbies
and Lammayans alike. Highly
recommended!
Written by Queenie
Mak, last updated
on June 1, 2021.
Aug 5:
It all started with a FB post by
ex-Lammayan Pete Spurrier,
commenting on the long-running
debate about what to call us
Lamma dwellers:
"Can I
suggest that henceforth, island
residents be known as
Lammonites."
As it's been a longtime habit on
Lamma's social media - like on
my previously very lively,
pre-Facebook
Lamma forums - a
debate
ensued. Suggestions:
Lemonnites, Lammonades,
Lammelians, Lammaiians, even
Lameites.
I've used Lammaites till now,
following other English media.
But a few people and myself
actually prefer
Lammayans!
Here are a few Lamma-zine
stories about the mythical
Lammayans by the Lamma-zine's
former Official Court
Storyteller Lokkanat:
Fellow Lammayans and Friends
Lammayan Tigers
Fast and Furious Fire Elves
P.S.
We're eagerly searching
for new Storytellers as this
honourable, "official"
volunteer position is currently
vacant!
Email me!
Aug 1:
Where to use your Consumption
Vouchers that you received today
(like most of your fellow
HKers), on Lamma? Many of us
want to keep our spending local,
supporting all the little, often
family-owned businesses that we
are relying on for our daily
needs, shopping and eating-out.
We've still got not a single
supermarket, 7-11 or any other
chain store/restaurant on all of
Lamma! In most areas of our
not-so-little island (3rd
largest in HK!) there's not even
any shop or restaurant in
walking distance.
 So
who's got one of the
4 Stored Value Facilities
(Octopus, Tap & Go, AlipayHK or
WeChat Pay HK) needed for using
these vouchers? Till a few years
ago, no business had even
Octopus or any card payments
available for their customers!
Here's an
updated, crowd-sourced list
for North Lamma. Thank you,
Marcus H. Langston!
"How to Spend It….
The Lamma list so far:
Bakery Corner 84
— Octopus, Alipay, WeChat pay
Banyan Bay Cafe
— Octopus (getting)
Blue Bird Japanese
—
Alipay
H1 Thai
(beside Bombay) — Alipay, WeChat
Jay bird - Octopus (from next
week)
Jing Jing /
Diesel's — Octopus
(getting)
Lammart
— Octopus arriving
Lamma Vinyl Records —
Octopus, Alipay, WeChat pay
Li Yuen Shop —
Octopus (August), Alipay
Man Fung Seafood
— Octopus, Ali Pay, WeChat pay
Man Kee —
Octopus (getting)
Rainbow Rest., Sok Kwu
Wan — all 4!
Sau Kee
Seafood (formerly
Andy's Seafood)
— Alipay, WeChat
pay
Shop opp. Jing
Jing — Octopus
Spicy Island —
Alipay, WeChat pay
Wah Cheung (Wine Shop)
— Octopus, Alipay
Waterfront Rest. —
"Trying"
Shop 80
(Village Super) — Octopus,
Alipay, WeChat pay
Please
add to the list
if you know any other vendors on
Lamma that will accept the
consumption voucher payments."
P.S. A
word of caution:
We've tested on Tue, Aug 10 to
get lunch in YSW with
Octopus or TapnGo and
failed spectacularly! We tried
all our usual places (most have
no plans to get any of these
e-pay systems), plus some
others.
All the places listed above on
"getting Octopus soon" are still
waiting to get theirs set up.
There's so much demand all over
HK from merchants right now to
get Octopus installed in
restaurants and shops. 5.5
million HKers got their
consumption vouchers on Aug 1
and most opted to get them via
Octopus.
TapnGo is barely usable in YSW
as it requires either Google
Pay, Apple Pay, Mastercard or
Unioncard, all never used in YSW
restaurants, as far as I know.
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