Chinese Kite Flying
Today we went on a bit of a trek all the way off Hong kong island and ventured into the New Territories. Grace (our boss) organized a Christmas day out with options such as fishing, hiking, boating and kite flying available for us to take part in. Partly due to the previous night out kite flying was deemed to be a pretty safe bet. I took quite a few of these pictures with my friends camera, the quality of which has made me realize that I need to buy a new one for Christmas.
The kites were quite funky, this one was a dragonfly, I had a similar one which was a goldfish but before a picture could be taken it quite aptly went crashing into the sea!
Its at this point that I started to get kind of 'arty', and tried to get Robyn, Kite and sunset into one shot...
Rob got quite into the kite flying malarkey as you can see, she was even running (a very rare sight) in an attempt to make it take off
Part of the problem was that with everyone flying kites near each other there were often some crossed wires... At one point if it was not for the fact I was wearing specs I think i would have lost an eye to a lowflying 'Hello Kitty' kite.
And here I am showing them how its done... or not
Some of the gang (and my very extendable right arm)
And the boating group returned without catching a thing.
It was a really great day out. It was even nicer to get off Hong Kong island for a little while. For all its merits and fun, HK island is really smoggy and jam packed with people, so many so that I have now given up apologizing to every single person i bump into just because it starts to hurt your voice repeating the same word so many times! The air was really fresh as well, you could take deep breaths and not inhale the exhaust of the bus thats just whizzed past.
At the end of the night we all had a BBQ with Christmas songs in the background. (Although there was some type of meat served that had an unknown origin). I have now learnt not to try to ask what it exactly is i'm eating and just accept the fact that more than likely I have consumed snake, dog and cat since i arrived here :)
Bx
The kites were quite funky, this one was a dragonfly, I had a similar one which was a goldfish but before a picture could be taken it quite aptly went crashing into the sea!
Its at this point that I started to get kind of 'arty', and tried to get Robyn, Kite and sunset into one shot...
Rob got quite into the kite flying malarkey as you can see, she was even running (a very rare sight) in an attempt to make it take off
Part of the problem was that with everyone flying kites near each other there were often some crossed wires... At one point if it was not for the fact I was wearing specs I think i would have lost an eye to a lowflying 'Hello Kitty' kite.
And here I am showing them how its done... or not
Some of the gang (and my very extendable right arm)
And the boating group returned without catching a thing.
It was a really great day out. It was even nicer to get off Hong Kong island for a little while. For all its merits and fun, HK island is really smoggy and jam packed with people, so many so that I have now given up apologizing to every single person i bump into just because it starts to hurt your voice repeating the same word so many times! The air was really fresh as well, you could take deep breaths and not inhale the exhaust of the bus thats just whizzed past.
At the end of the night we all had a BBQ with Christmas songs in the background. (Although there was some type of meat served that had an unknown origin). I have now learnt not to try to ask what it exactly is i'm eating and just accept the fact that more than likely I have consumed snake, dog and cat since i arrived here :)
Bx
posted by robynandben at 10:08 PM
3 Comments:
ok so can you add kite flying to our tour when we come out please, plus fishing , as long as we catch some. Good photos Ben think you should invest in a better camera, nice blog, pleased you all had a good day out, and remember a dog is not just for christmas the Koreans say you can eat them all through the year !
This coming from the man that would eat anything put before him on a table. Even if it was still moving and trying to get away...
Bx
If it moves you know its fresh!!!!
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