Po Toi

Hello My Dear Great Ones,
The following, from a Hk tourist website, is a pretty apt description of Po Toi island that Celia and I visited last week.

Known as the 'South Pole of Hong Kong', Po Toi embraces the turquoise South China Sea. Comprised almost entirely of easily-weathered granite, the island boasts peculiar-looking rocks, which have been voted as the most beautiful in Hong Kong in public surveys. The island's seaweed is equally renowned, so be sure to try some seaweed soup and take home some dried seafood products.

Source: http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/see-do/great-outdoors/hikes/po-toi-island.jsp#ixzz41zss7QsF

Since Po Toi Island is not a particularly popular destination of Hong Kong, the boat ride over to the island  from Stanley Pier was cheap, short 20 mins, and relaxing sans a crowd.

Much of Po Toi is natural 98%, half of it does not even have trails.  

Famous for granite rock formations Po Toi attracts rock hounds.

The little bay of Po Toi has a few houses.  About 200 hearty souls live on this rocky marvel.

The restaurants on the island are indeed "interesting," offering a wide variety of  dried sea weed dishes.  Hmm

This dish has a seeweed bed, with a fried egg and ham on top.  Hmm.  Maybe next time.

Restaurants on Poi To have a certain "ambience."

A wide variety of dried seeweed was available for purchase.

There is bit of a jungle on Po Toi, this banyan tree is a beauty as is the model modeling the tree.

Elephant grass.

Bamboo.

There is a nice well paved trail with nice protective railings to prevent you from sprawling into the rocky, bushy, abyss below.

Amongst the rocks were graves.  Strange place for a graveyard.

The unusual rock formation is called Palm Rock.

Interesting rock formations on the edge of the ocean.

Celia posing on the granite.

A peek into an abyss.

Cactus!  Was a pleasant day, about 20 above, but by the end of March I am sure Po Toi will get pretty hot.

Plenty of stairs to a lovely viewpoint.

The scenery, and I include Celia, was beautiful.

Lots of interesting rock formations.

We ended our day at this "lovely" local for a cold pop.  

Note the drying fish on the restaurant's veranda.


Have a great week everyone!

Love adios and ping on!

Dirk