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Abandoned
Jul 24
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Surprise discovery while watering my Balcony Jungle: an empty nest!
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Ferry Pier
Progress
Jul 20
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The glass roof and steps of the new Pak Kok ferry pier have just been
installed.
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Decarbonisation
Jul 19
- "HK Electric has been organising numerous
activities and competitions under its Happy Green Campaign."
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Weekly Recycling
Jul 12
- Visiting Aberdeen Bus Terminus for our weekly recycling.
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Typically Lamma!
Jul 11
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"Let's find out about your imbalances and use yoga movements to pacify
them."
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Ferry Pier Updates
Jul 3
- Pak Kok ferry pier construction in typhoon-safe mode, no ships, no cranes.
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Rural Idyll?
Jun 30
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Trying to create an impression of these 2 contrasting islands: HK vs. Lamma.
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Big YAWN!
Jun 28
- Early riser Lamma-Por woke me up excitedly at 5:30am today.
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Most Charming
Island
Jun 22
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"We went to Lamma Island to sketch and paint with our two-year-old
daughter."
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YSW Bar Scene
Jun 20
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2 more iconic Lamma bars in YSW are changing owners these days.
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May Sunsets
Jun 1
- Celebrating the end of another May full of amazing sunsets!
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Surprise discovery while
watering my Balcony Jungle: an
empty nest! So that's why I've
often seen a Red-whiskered
Bulbul flying off my balcony
when I went out these last few
weeks. But I've never seen or
heard the chicks?



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The glass roof of the new
Pak Kok ferry pier just went
up.
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The steps down to the ferry
have just been installed.
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5G
is blindingly fast at the
pier now.
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An electricity box for the
pier will be built behind
the shelter, jackhammering
away the big rocks there
now.
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A wide electricity cable
trench from Danny's shop to
the future pier entrance will be dug
up
soon.

"To encourage the public to
support Hong Kong's goal of
achieving carbon neutrality, HK
Electric has been organising
numerous activities and
competitions under its Happy
Green Campaign along the theme
of 'Decarbonisation our New
Mission' since 2021. A
group of green champions were
selected and recognised at a
prize presentation ceremony held
last Saturday (9 July).
The winning project from the
Civil Engineering Department of
The University of Hong Kong
involved the design of a bus
stop with solar panels and green
walls, which helped reduce the
impacts of air pollution and
heat island effect on the
environment of roadside bus
stops.

Project Titles:
Innovative Green Wall
Development in Urban Area
Hydrogen - A Big Step Towards
Utopia Smart Meter
Application in Grid Green
Energy in Future Cities - The
Utilization of Piezoelectric
Power in Railways and Bridges
Cutting-edge Carbon Reduction
Technology of Buildings in Hong
Kong Decarbonisation by 2050
with Green Energy Production
of ammonia by electrochemical
nitrogen reduction reaction for
hydrogen power."
Full press release:
HK Electric's Got Talent … on
Decarbonisation

New photo album: Sunset
ferry from Aberdeen to Lamma,
July 14, '22

Photos by
Nicky Hung. She writes:
"Tonight 8pm: Full moon night
singing bowl group class
($180) with full moon bowl at
Lamma Art Collective.
Pilates class ($180) at 6:30pm,
1 spot left. All supplied by
Maximon Healing."

The Lamma-zine ARCHIVE has been
updated. Click on ARCHIVE on the
top right of every page of this
website.
Our 20th
anniversary is coming up on July 23.
How to celebrate?
Special sections of our website, also linked from ARCHIVE,
all created and maintained by
L-G:
Only Half the Man I used to Be
(L-G losing half of his former
body weight)
L-G's Rooftop Jungle
(12 years of rooftop gardening)
The Island Bar website
(20 years of Lamma history)
Nick the Bookman website
("Psychedelic As
Hell")
L-G's Art Gallery
(42 years of digital artworks)


Waiting for the Pak Kok ferry on our way to Aberdeen Bus
Terminus (see below) for our weekly
recycling, gathering points for
some nice gifts. See
Lamma-zine July 8
for details .


Gift Redemption Unit inside
Tin Wan Recycling Store
shop, 10 minutes walk
or 1 minibus stop from
Aberdeen's Lamma ferry pier.


April TPE writes:
"This Friday 7:15pm at
Lamma Art Collective!
Let's find out about your
imbalances and use yoga
movements to pacify them with
Ayurveda. Mats are provided @
$170.
Book via WhatsApp
6468-7681 or
www.vatayogaretreat.com."
P.S. More
Typically Lamma!
pictures...

To encourage recycling,
EPD Dept. is
offering nice rewards for the
following
recyclables:
Many collection points
all over HK. Aberdeen might be
most convenient for Lammaites,
Monday afternoon at Aberdeen
Centre square or Tuesday morning
at the Aberdeen Bus Terminal:


We've reached the 2,000 points
top level the other day, so I've
picked up this recycled
recycling triple bag below which we're
using now to collect and
separate our household's
recyclables. Click for video:
After getting your own GREEN$
card from a collection point,
you can check your accumulated
points anytime at
https://reward.greenycoins.gov.hk/en

"A short film capturing that
typhoon-spirit in our village as
we anticipate another typhoon 8
passing over Lamma Island."
by
Robert Hope-Jones

Pak Kok ferry pier construction
in typhoon-safe mode, shut down, no more
boats,
no more multiple cranes.
A few days earlier, June 30
morning, just before typhoon
Chabra, the first T8 of this
year:


My little exercise in trying to
create an impression of these 2
contrasting islands: HK and
Lamma. Urban and rural, just 25
minutes by ferry apart, but such
a world of differences.
This is actually an AI-generated
mix of these 2 pictures:
My photo of the YMCA camp opening
at the ex-Lamma Quarry lake plus
a drawing by Andrés Yeah for
Culture Trip's story
Lamma Island: Hong Kong’s Last
Hippie Stronghold:

Want to see a few more of my Lamma artworks? Summer Solstice Sunset
triptych:




(Views towards Lantau to
the West, opposite to the
sunrise)
Early riser Lamma-Por woke me up
excitedly at 5:30am today,
pushing me to walk up to the
rooftop sleepily with my
smartphone. {Big YAWN!}
But
it was well worth it! Great to
have access to our former
upstairs neighbours' rooftop
with sweeping sunrise to sunset
views.

Look what I found, an
all-illustrated, animated
drawing trip and Lamma history,
narrated in HK English by a
"Painting family of backpackers".
Well worth the watch!
"It was a beautiful morning
when we went to Lamma Island to
sketch and paint with our
two-year-old daughter little
Dawnxi. Our beautiful Hong Kong
is home to over two hundred
islands and the many aboriginal
villages on the island, which
represent another side of Hong
Kong. They maintain a quiet and
peaceful, simple and natural
life in a corner of the bustling
city, and Lamma Island is the
epitome of them. In our hearts,
Lamma Island is the most
charming island ...
Text/Painting/Illustrations/Voice:
Dawnxisoul393"


(Photos - click above for more - by Wyee Lee)
Many beaches around Lamma Island
have been swamped by debris
washed ashore during the record
high tides:
"Summer Solstice: Higher
high tides occur due to the
increased angle of the sun
relative to the Earth during the
summer solstice.").

(Highest tide at Pak Kok
ferry pier, taking the top
steps)
The daily 2 high tides are back
to regular afterwards, so this various,
often dangerous flotsam will
remain, not being washed back
out to sea
again.
This is one of the worst beach
pollutions we've seen in quite
some time, more than our many
dedicated beach cleanup
volunteers can handle. The
Govt.'s beach cleanup ladies
have been doing their best on
some of the public or most
prominent beaches, but it's more
than even they can handle.
More volunteers to the rescue,
please!

Are you still missing the Island
Bar, closed permanently after 38
years on June 9, 2019?
My historic
Island Bar website
is still part of the Lamma-zine,
20 years of stories & photos of
their events & happenings.
2 more iconic Lamma bars in YSW
are changing owners these days.
The proprietors are leaving HK,
like so many friends. Updates:
Banyan Bay Cafe and
Blue Goose Tavern
The remaining pure bars are
requiring a new Covid-test for
patrons now, almost killing
their businesses after being
completely closed for so long.
YSW's formerly so very vibrant
bar scene is undergoing another
major shift.

"Profile | Meeting
Muhammad Ali, tussling with a
tennis legend, living easy on
Lamma
Nick Lovatt the bearded book
man on his 70 years in Hong Kong
Lovatt was at school in Mong Kok
during the 1967 riots and a
founding pupil at Island School;
as a journalist he was almost
headbutted by tennis' Ilie
Nastase. A resident since
1988 of Lamma, where he met his
wife and began growing a beard,
he trades secondhand books and
helps people move house, he
tells Kate Whitehead."
Click for
FB discussion
For a 20+-year archive of Nick
photos, videos and stories (some
written by Nick in his
inimitable style):
Search Lamma-zine



"...to be completed and in
service in 2022".
Click for discussion.

Celebrating the end of another May
full of amazing sunsets!

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