El Zorro: A new adventure (新冒險)

I'm familiar with D'Aigular Street in Central. But I never knew until recently that's there's a beautiful place called Cape D'Aguilar, or Hok Tsu. It's a cape south of Shek O on the south-eastern tip of Hong Kong Island. The cape is named after after Major-General George Charles D'Aguilar.

I got off the at the intersection of Shek O Road and Cape D'Aquilar Road and walked along the road for some 10 minutes before arriving at the road actually at a round about where I discovered that in fact, It's served by Route No. 9 Bus. There were plenty clouds in the sky.

It was a fairly hot day. Fortunately, the road was full of very dense vegetation and many parts of the road were protected from the sun by a cover overhanging leaves or the tree.in the direction from which the sunlight came. Occasionally, one can get a glimpse of the sea when the bushes at the side of the road were not so tall. In the distance at the tip of the peninsula on the opposite side of the sea is the Earth Satellite Station.

There were not very many interesting flowers

Only this red pod-like flower

There were some low rise residences opposite.

a very rectangular rock on the left of the road

The rock surface below was covered with moss

A very personalised notice of the village post boxes.

a peony I found at the side of the road

Another one

a house surrounded by trees

A green shed

A warning sign for mud slide

closer to the cape now

The path leading to the seaside

A sea cave at the side of the path

There are a number of such wireless antennae towers in the area

A huge cap like tree full of Plumeria rubra (紅雞蛋花)

My first glimpse of the cape. In the distance is the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SIMS") first established in 1994 by the HKU Biology Department to study marine life in Hong Kong

The shallow cover

It had a fairly flat wave cut platform.

As it was sheltered, the waves are not that strong.

The 20 hectare area has been designated a Marine Reserve in July 1996 for conserving marine resources, scientific studies and public education. Within the area, no fishing, swimming, boating and collection of plant and marine life samples are permitted

The Memorial relating to such designation erected in September of that year. It was Hong Kong's very first Marine Reserve.

A killer whale skeleton outside the SIMS.

Clouds rising between the a pair of small islands protecting the cove, called Kau Pei Chau (狗髀洲), to the south of the SIMS

I met a young couple trying out their recently bought aerial photograph gadget which they got a about HK5,000

He operated with an apps from his mobile phone. It was quite steady.

A huge arch at the tip of the cape. We got this in Hong Kong too, not just at Cape Santiago.

Another view of the arch

There was a small wave pool to one side of the arch.

Plenty of clouds over the horizon

And clouds over the arch too

We had to cross over this rocky patch to get a better view of the sea

A view of the sea from under the Notice of the Marine Reserve.

There appear to be two jet jetstreams across the sky both converging towards the cloud over the hills opposite

The Marine Reserve Notice from a higher vantage point

The sea was so blue

a more distant view of the arch

Plenty of clouds today but no rain
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One could see a rocky reef line crossing the cove towards Kau Pei Chau on the right

The famous light tower there, first opened in 1975, the oldest in Hong Kong, is now operated automatically. So no one is manning it and the stairs leading up to it are now blocked by a small gate. So could'nt get a closer look. It's one of the five oldest ones. The Lighthouse is now one of our declared historic heritage monuments.The others are on Green Island, Tung Lung Chau and Waglan Island, the last two of which also enjoying similar status.