HONG KONG 4

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Instead of using public transport - subway, bus and ferry to reach our destinations, my son Paul who is resident in Hong Kong, arranged to hire a car and for the next two days of the weekend became our chauffeur.

Paul drove us to Aberdeen to take us to lunch on the largest floating restaurant in the world.

The Aberdeen marina.

I took this photo of the marina from the high rise parking facility of the Aberdeen Yacht Club.

Then we paid a small amount to be taken out in one of these boats to the Jumbo floating restaurant.

Green roofed water taxis.

The Jumbo floating restaurant.

We were placed at a window table on the second floor. Carol had great fun admiring all the expensive yachts at the little sampans chugged past.

Sampans

The food was good and we found an excellent bottle of German Riesling on the wine list.

German Riesling

After lunch Paul photographed Carol and I standing at the entrance of the Jumbo Restaurant.

Carol and Fay

Then at Paul’s suggestion we asked a water taxi to take us for a cruise through the marina past the big ocean going fishing boats and all the smaller craft.

A houseboat

Houseboats like the yellow one were equipped with air-conditioning units and TV antennae.

Many boats carried dogs to prevent theft.

Watch dog

Police launch

Garbage collection

This small boat was passing between the rows of anchored vessels netting and scooping up rubbish from from the water.

Ocean going fishing boat.

With these photographs I’ve tried to show a small cross section of the water craft, many of which were family homes,  occupying this space of water beneath the towering blocks of apartments surrounding the harbour.

Das Helwig Haus B&B owned by Eberhard and Fay Helwig is situated at Glen Aplin, near Stanthorpe on the Granite Belt of southern Queensland, Australia.

This is a region noted for summer stone-fruit, autumn apples, winter  Christmas in July dinners and a spring Remembrance Field of red Flanders poppies.

Fay has published a book called Wildflowers, wilderness and wine.

It is available on the Amazon.com website.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ACXQ0M/sr=8-1/qid=1244294755/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1244294755&sr=8-1&seller=

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http://books.google.co.uk/

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