Up Tai Mo Shan and down again to Route Twisk (Photo-essay)

Something I forgot to add in my previous photo-essay about the Tai Mo Shan hike I went on with two friends one summer's day: a few days before, typhoon signal number 10 had been raised in Hong Kong on account of Severe Typhoon Vicente having come to visit.  And when we got to the top of Hong Kong's highest mountain, rain clouds threatened for a time.

Consequently, my hiking party abandoned our plans to go along all of Maclehose Trail Section 8 in reverse down to Lead Mine Pass (and from there, down towards Tai Po or southwards to Shing Mun Reservoir).  Instead, like the men of the Grand Old Duke of York of nursery rhyme fame, we went back down the hill after going up it -- though, fortunately, we didn't end up being "neither up nor down" it! ;b

Spotted in the sky over Hong Kong that day -- a plane

flying near a cloud that looks like a clenched fist to me! ;O

 Down on the ground, large earthworms like this 

threatened to freak out one of the members of our party! ;D

Can you spot the silhouette of Lion Rock in 

the middle of the photo?

Looking northeastwards to the Tolo Harbour,

Pat Sin Leng and their surrounding territory

As rain threatened, many dragonflies bunched together

as well as took flight

But as we made our way back down along the same route

that we had taken up Tai Mo Shan, the blue skies returned

I'm not sure whether the cows liked that bush as food

or for the shelter it offered them but they sure did

nestle up close to it!

It honestly wasn't that late when we headed back down

Tai Mo Shan, yet the moon already was visible in the sky! :O