Geological and other sights in the more remote sections of Hong Kong's northeast (Photo-essay)

On the way to the sixth stop on yesterday's boat tour which included time spent on the islands of Check Chau (aka Port Island), Ap Chau (aka Robinson Island) and Kat O (aka Crooked Island), I noticed that I had taken more than 60 photos at that stage in the excursion, and mentioned it to one of the group's members.  She ruefully told me that she had taken so many photos on her smartphone that its battery had run out of power!

Those two remarks should give a good idea how many cool and interesting sights we saw on the northeastern Hong Kong tour that also included visits to Wong Chuk Kok Tsui, Hung Shek Mun, Sam A Tsuen and Lai Chi Wo.  And for good measure, here's offering up 8 photos taken yesterday -- in addition to those I already put at the top of yesterday's blog post -- that I hope will drive home that point (even while I also grant that they'd have been better if there had been more sunshine when I took them!):-

 A view of Chek Chau from the sea, with a waterfall

as the surprise icing on the cake

A Time Out article billed the "Devil's Fist" as the most 

iconic of  Hong Kong's rocks rather than Lion Rock! :O

Not only can reddish rocks be found at Hung Shek Mun (Red Rock 

Door/Passage) but some of them also are honeycomb shaped! 

The clear, calm waters add to the area's beauty

I'd visited Sam A Tsuen a few times before but this was

the greenest I have seen it and its surroundings being

 In this part of the world, the green and rural areas belong to

Hong Kong while the more built-up areas are in mainland China!

(click on the photo to enlarge and boggle your mind! ;b)

Someone on Kat O's a fan of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers ;)

From the terrace in front of Kat O's Tin Hau temple, 

one can see duck shaped Ap Chau, and Shenzhen's high rises