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No Words
Necessary...
Apr 30 -
Wow, this has become my Facebook photo with the most reactions, shares and
comments ever!
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Professors Visiting
Apr 29 -
A history professor from a US college wrote a
book about Nick the Bookman's famous great-grandfather.
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Brown Booby Visiting
Apr 4 -
Big commotion among bird lovers the other day! An extremely rare HK visitor,
a Brown Booby.
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WE Love Lamma!
Apr 3 -
"When 'Professional and Dedicated Guardian
Angel (Outsourced Cleaners)' meet 'Loving HKers'."
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May
26:
Online photo competition by HK
Electric!
Submit your
favourite photos (2-10MB) of
living organisms on Lamma, from
tiny to large, before May 31 to
their Facebook page
44 Kennedy Road.
More info:
"1) Small gift:
5 sets of electronics-pack
(includes phone charger,
blue-tooth speaker, etc.); plus
10 sets of green-pack (includes
reusable food wrap, foldable
coffee cup, etc.).
2) Copyright:
photos received will be used
only for our company FB
pages/publications to promote
World Environment Day with
proper attribution to the author
and the best 3-5 photos will be
sent to media for promotion
purposes at no extra
cost/expenses.
3) Organism:
animals, insects, plants or
other living creatures could do.
The criteria is that the photos
should be taken on Lamma, that
is, the organism could be found
on Lamma."
4) Up to 10-15
pictures/entrant,
covering different areas like
animal, insect, plant and
flower."
Deadline next Sunday.
Let me start off with one of my
photos from our extensive Lamma
Wildlife Photo of the Week
collection at:
http://Lamma.com.hk/forum-OK/viewforum.php?f=46
May 13:
Click for
more details and HKKF website
In the meantime, the long-time
HK Ferry Android app
has been discontinued end of
April. It'll go on working fine,
but no more updates.
I'll
really miss it as it would let
you put all 3 Lamma ferry
services/4 routes onto a single
smartphone screen. The only
long-time app I paid yearly
subscription for to avoid ads.
Please refer to the left column
of this website for always
up-to-date links to the ferry
schedules.
May 12:
Best advertising sign for a YSW
rest. I've seen recently! Turn
left for the hot, exhaustive and
dangerous Family Trail
to Sok Kwu Wan or turn right for
seafront dining + cold drinks!
Easy choice! ;-}
Is this from the same person
that created their professional
new posters?
Click for more
info and RSVP:
 
May 8:
My mutations of the same set of
3D fractal formulas
(original starting parameters by
Sinisa Dalenjak).
Uisng this last image above as
my Facebook avatar, One of this
Friendversary videos that
Facebook automatically
generates. Love how our two
avatars fit together so nicely!
Mark Malby
is watching me since we did a
3-person
In Love with Lamma Joint
Photo exhibition!
This mini-series of
fractal digital 3D images is
ending my
Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stay
Creative series of
creative experiments.
Off to the cinema today!
P.S. Updating
my 40-year
art/photo gallery.
Apr
30:
 
The queue remained at almost
max. density all the way into
Main Street and beyond...
"Social distancing" is more kind
of a recommendation in HK, never
enforced or punished. Huge
close-up crowds in all the
never-closed shops and
supermarkets, restaurants at
half capacity and 6 feet
distancing between tables of not
more than 4 guests.
But with only 4 deaths in total
so far and only 1K total
infections, 0 new infections for
several days now, it seems to be
working astonishingly well,
despite? Maybe the social-only,
not-enforced pressure to wear
masks almost since day 1, which
almost everybody seems to be
following?
Wow, this has become my Facebook
photo with the most reactions,
shares and comments ever, I
think!
Just 1 day later,
it's up to 300+ reactions, 200+
Shares. 50+ comments so far!
But these are just simple
smartphone photos you could
shoot yourself at almost each
Lamma ferry arrival during this
Buddha's Birthday/Labour Day
weekend!
Yung Shu Wan ferry pier
today at boarding time...
Best comments so far:
"What a difference a day
makes!
The Govt. announces it
might relax work from home,
schools and leisure centres next
week and POW! Let's all get out
in the sunshine."
"10.30am from Central closed
gate as full!!"
"Not
proud of it, but it's the Hong
Kong way of Social Distancing."
"Good Friday 2003: 15,000
people!"
"Nothing compared to the 400+
yrd bus queue(constant from
4-7pm) leaving Tai O tonight."
"Cheung Chau today was
bonkers. Great. Close quarters.
Wonderful day!
Buns et al!"
"As people aren't able to
travel, I think all summer
they'll be 'holidaying' on
Lamma."
"OMG, this reminds me when
we had SARS in 2003 and
everybody invaded Lamma because
we were free of SARS!"
"Not going anywhere - it's
madness out there!"
Apr 29:
A history professor from a US
college wrote a book about Nick
the Bookman's famous
great-grandfather.
He and his fellow lecturers have
been stopping by at Nick's
outdoor shop today, having an
involved talk about Nick's
ancestors.
Nick's sister Melle came by
later as well, sharing many a
story and some ancient photos of
Nick's past on her iPhone family
album:
Who would have ever thought back
then that their eldest child
would grow up to become famous
as
The Original Hippie?!
More about the book and the
professors' visit in the next
few days.
Apr 26:
See what
Brendan Sheridan did with a
stand-up paddleboard and a GPS
tracking app outside the
Powerstation! He's been
practicing his unique style of
sea graffiti for quite a while
before creating this masterpiece
of precision and patience.
A few friends joined in with
other creations, mostly swear
words, but Brendan remains the
master!
P.S. Brendan
couldn't resist creating a Chin.
version of "Lamma Island". We
wonder if he takes requests for
his fledgling
Paddleboard Graffiti
business?
Apr 25:
Apr 12:
For more pictures like this,
plus many other digital
artworks, see my Facebook Page:
Lamma Gung Art & Photography.
P.S. In case
you're wondering about the
"Despite" in the title of this
story, this is why:
Apr 4:
Photos by
Hazel Walpole and Peter Kline.
Many more in
Lamma Birds group.
Big commotion among bird lovers
the other day! An extremely rare
HK visitor, a Brown
Booby (Sula
leucogaster), made a visit to
Yung Shue Wan. Hazel posted this
pic above and it caused big
interest among many bird
photographers, flocking to the
location from all over N. Lamma
and even off-island.
The best photo has been taken by
Peter Kline,
shot from quite a distance with
a very long lens. Sadly, the
bird was injured somehow before
resting on Lamma. It didn't
survive in the Kadoorie Farm who
picked it up the same day.
RIP, beautiful bird.
Apr 3:
Click above for
details of these free protection
equipment distribution to our
cleaners by Caan Chui
and the WE LAMMA group:
"This organisation is a group of
local islander volunteers who
worked together during the
2019's Lamma and Po Toi District
Council election. After which
the enthusiastic group has
decided to continue their
contribution to Lamma by
officially forming "WE
Lamma" as a resident concern
group."
Caan Chui writes:
"When 'Professional and
Dedicated Guardian Angel
(Outsourced Cleaners)' meet
'Loving Hongkongers'. Two words,
super awesome!
Last episode (March 10):
Everyday early in the morning, a
group of people have always been
devoted to their duties dealing
with our garbage, which also
include exposing themselves to
the very risky bacterial viruses
we all so diligently try to
avoid.
Our neighbourhood in
Lamma has raised funds to come
up with a little gift for the 41
outsourced frontline cleaners
serving the areas of 'Lamma
Island and Po Toi'. Each pack
consists of a pair of 'reusable,
chemical-resistant gloves and
professional anti-bacterial
goggles'…"
Apr 2:
The formerly
highly sought-after face masks
are available in town pretty
easily by now, for a price. But
on an Outlying Islands under
Govt. advice to "Stay
Home, Stay Safe!"
they're not available here at
all. So these 5,000 free masks
went in less than half an hour,
handed by out in person by
Legislative Council member
Eddie Chu.
Lamma is
changing over the years, no more
free-wheeling Hippie Island,
people becoming more orderly and
so well-behaved! No mad dashes
or crowds fighting over these
FREE masks! Thank you, Eddie
CHU!
Apr 1:
Bike
Mike, ex-Lammaite
Roving Reporter:
"As COVID-19 issues will wind
down later this year, a still
secret sponsor has announced
sponsorship of Lamma Island's
Post-COVID-19 Triathlon.
This major international Olympic
event will feature athletes who
train in three popular sporting
pursuits: Swimming,
Running, and Roller Sports.
 The
Yung Shue Wan Ferry Pier will
host the Race Start where
swimmers will enter the water
following inaugural speeches and
the playing of China's National
Anthem by Leigh & Harry,
Lamma's own Bearded
Ukuladies.
Swimmers will try to avoid the
4PM arrival and departures of
ferries as they swim towards Kam
Lo Hom, passing The Typhoon
Shelter and then pass by the HK
Power Station waters by Po Lo
Tsui. These waters are normally
off-limits to swimmers, however
HK Electric has waived this
restriction in the spirit of
celebrating the end of
COVID-19's hold on the
territory.
Speaking on behalf of the
Australian triathletes,
Brad Tarr said that the
Ozzie contingent should do well
in the water, particularly if
there is coal freighter traffic
arriving.
"The
freighters generate wonderful
waves",
said Tarr,
"Australians are natural
surfers; their wakes will allow
us to body surf through the
power plant waters, while
avoiding a different sort of a
wake for any opposition".
 Exiting
the Power Station area, swimmers
will traverse the waters to the
shore of Power Station Beach
where they will quickly change
into their running gear.
Assistance on the beach will be
provided by a volunteer corps of
paddlers from the Lamma Dragons.
Runners will then sprint up hill
to Lamma Winds for the next
change. At Lamma Winds they will
jump on their skateboards or don
in-line skates for the race's
home stretch, back to the Yung
Shue Wan Ferry Pier.
Johnny Canuk, Lamma's
resident Canadian, expects this
leg of the race to belong to the
Canadian entries. "Here's
where we will overtake the
Australians, we Canadians rule
the skating world", he said."
This part of the race is quite
technical. Roller athletes will
be required to leap over snakes
on the downhill portion of the
race and demerit points will go
to any who collide with Lamma
serpents.
However, bonus points will be
awarded to any racer who jousts
post-work pedestrians off the
path as they dash for the Ferry
Pier Finish Line.
"Living
Lamma Legend',
Nick the Bookman, has
agreed to act as the race
governor. The finish line will
consist of Nick's beard stretched
across the entrance to the ferry
pier.
The
Lamma COVID-19 Triathlon will
take place
April 1st,
2021, well ahead of the
postponed Olympic Games."
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