A hike from the Peak down to Aberdeen with a diversity of critter spottings (Photo-essay)

It's official: the 11 amber rainstorm warnings issued last month were the most that have been issued in a single month since June 2001.  Alternatively put: this past August was very wet indeed.  And while I worried just this past spring about whether Hong Kong would be experiencing a drought in the near future, I'm now of the view that a little bit less precipitation this September actually might be welcome!

For one thing, it'd give me more opportunities to go out hiking again.  Indeed, it's been such a while since I've been out hiking that I'd even welcome an excursion that would get me sweating buckets the way I sometimes do when climbing up a lot of steps; this especially if that same hike also turned out to be a critter spotting bonanza, like the one I that took me from the Peak down to Aberdeen a while back:-

  A blue-spotted crow that's a butterfly, not a bird :b

Hill streams are in full flow at this time of the year

 

I have no idea what this bug is -- and until I set eyes on it,

didn't realize such a creature existed on this planet!

 

A section of trail that's not difficult but which I still would 

hesitate to go on by myself, thanks to my having a fear of heights

and the trail being both high up and close to the edge :S

 

View from the trail of high-rise-filled Aberdeen and Ap Lei Chau,

and part of the body of water in between

The warning sign makes this trail sound 

quite a bit more difficult than it actually is!

 

Fish in the catchwater my hiking companion and I

walked along for part of the way!

 

My last critter spotting of the hike -- yes, it's a wild boar!