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Eastern Sparkle
Mar 26 -
"The current City Garden is where HK Electric's second power station
used to stand."
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Lamma Covid-19 Case
Mar 23
- The sole COVID-19 local case in many weeks, a neighbour close to our home.
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Hippies Abloom
Mar 21
- The very first Hippeastrum flower just opened in my balcony garden.
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To Be Vaccinated
Mar 10 -
Just booked online for BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine, no wait at all.
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No Entry!
Mar 8 -
If you don't use it, you lose it, Lamma-style.
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Mar 31:
 
Starting tomorrow, Turtle Beach and
the ENTIRE bay will become a
restricted area for the summer
season, not just the
beach as in past years. Hong
Kong's Green Sea Turtle
conservation measures:
AFCD.gov.hk/.../SWRA_leaflet_2021.pdf
Restricted period:
From April to October every
year.
Restricted
area: Sandy beach at
Sham Wan, Lamma Island and inlet
of the sea adjoining the beach.
Resident and water-based patrol
officers will be enforcing these
strict new laws.
Maximum fine
for unauthorized entry:
$50,000.
24-hours hotline:
2733 2641 (or 1823)
Mar 29:
Full Moon
over YSW tonight, viewed from
Fishermen's Pier
by
Ewa Wilkinson
(Photographer & Videographer)
P.S.
More night photos
from same location, by Yours
Truly.
Mar 26:
New press release from HK
Electric:
Green Hong Kong Green Unveils
Hidden Gems in Eastern District:
"Named "The Eastern
Sparkle", the new route captures
the unique cultural, historical
and ecological features of North
Point, once a hub of
entertainment and leisure, and
home to the former North Point
Power Station.
"The current City Garden is
where HK Electric's second power
station – North Point Power
Station used to stand. Very
little is left now except the
few surviving street names, like
Electric Road, Tin Chong Street
and Power Street."
"Former Power Station" caught my
attention!
I was walking
along Electric Road just a few
minutes from home to my office.
We lived in City Garden (part of
this new "eco-heritage route")
in North Point in several flats
before moving to Lamma 20 years
ago. So we've moved from the
exact location of the former HK
Electric Power Station to Lamma
dominated by the current Power
Station!
Lots of pictures in the
Green HK Green press release
and there's even a
tour video:
"HK Electric's Managing
Director, Mr. Wan Chi-tin, is
joined by Rico to take the
public on a video tour in search
of North Point's forgotten past
and other ecology treasures."
Mar 25:
Hill fire today, on the hill
overlooking the Power Station!
Fiery photo by DJ Clarke
and the next 2 photos by
Oskar Glutton, with
friendly permission! Thank you
to our Lamma firefighters who
arrived on the scene
quickly!
 
It's been years since a serious
hill fire on Lamma. But Ching
Ming festival is coming up on
April 4, one of the 2
highest-risk days for hill fires
in HK. Traditionally, relatives
visit graves in the hills mostly
on or around these 2 festival
days, lighting candles and
occasionally not putting them
out properly.
P.S. New drone
photos of the area beween
windturbine and Cable Road by
Leung Gong Tsyn.
Thank you!
He writes:
"Bushfire aftermath.
Ching Ming Festival is coming up
soon, beware of any cigarette
butts or fire from burning
incense, as they might burn the
lovely greens on the hills and
it will take ages for the trees
and grass to grow back."
360-degree panorama
 
Mar 24:
My photo
shot from the forest path up to
Kam Lo Hom
A question I've
asked my 2002 Facebook Friends
and hundreds of Followers:
"How many times have you
been on a medical emergency
evacuation helicopter flight
from Lamma, either as a patient
or accompanying somebody?"
I've been flying only once in 20
years on Lamma, accompanying my
wife Lamma-Por, when the Govt.
Flying Services still used the
Power Station's Helipad.
Ambulance from the YSW Clinic,
landing in Tamar site in
Central, then taking the car
ambulance all the way to Queen
Mary Hospital, almost 2 hours in
total!
It's all way more
efficient and much faster since
they built the new helipad (see
above) close to the Lamma
Clinic.
Chow Yun-fat opened it!
The former record was held by
one Lamma lady who took the
helicopter EIGHT times so far!
The new record I just found is
an astounding 13 flights by my
former neighbour, a Filipina
who's mostly been accompanying
her elderly employers to
hospital.
Mar 23:
The sole COVID-19 case on Lamma
Island in many weeks, a
neighbour close to our home.
Asymptomatic, quarantined in
hospital, no problem for us.
She's part of the URSUS gym
cluster with over 150 cases so
far, mostly around Central, HK
Island.
The Govt. went to extreme
lengths to disinfect all the
areas she came in contact with,
even cleaning the OUTSIDE of her
village house and washing the
entire path from her flat to the
ferry pier! ;~)
Mar 22:
Currently in
Ap Lei Chau Sports
Centre 鴨脷洲體育館,
where Lamma-Poh just got her 1st
BioNTech shot, the
Comirnaty vaccine.
(The name is a combination of
the terms COVID-19, mRNA,
community, and immunity.)
I received my 1st shot in
this same place 6 days ago. It's
the most convenient for us Pak
Kokians, just a short ferry ride
to Aberdeen, a 2-minute walk to
gaido to Ap Lei Chau island,
then 5 minutes to the centre.
Lamma-Poh was quite reluctant at
first to get jabbed, but
accompanied me last week. She
was so impressed by the highly
professional immunisation setup,
she signed up on the spot and
here we are today for her 1st
shot!
Quick, easy, very well-organised
and an almost painless jab! We
even got a doctor coming by
before our injections because we
were worried about our
pre-existing conditions and me
being on 2 courses of
antibiotics at the time. No
problem.
Not a single, even mild side
effect for either of us. even
days later! Looking forward to
our 2nd shots in 3 weeks.
Freebies after vaccination:
Sticker, pin & 10 facemasks.
Masks will remain mandatory in
HK for at least the rest of this
year, probably longer.
Mural opposite the Vaccination
Centre:
Vaccination Centre just opposite
the Aberdeen-Lamma ferry pier.
Very safe gaido, with 5 fire
extinguishers on this little
wooden boat crossing Aberdeen
Harbour very frequently.
 
Mar 21:
 The very first Hippeastrum
flower just opened in my balcony
garden. Many of these huge,
iconic flowers, including mine, seen all over
Lamma Island these days were
originally bred, sold or often
donated for free by
Geoff the Master Gardener
of the
Tai Peng Community Garden.
Results of some of his
cross-breeding work over the
past few years. Click for
Geoff's video:
Click for Blooming Hippies in
TPCG right now. Visit!
P.S. Mar 30: Hippies
are finally in full bloom in my
currently very lush
& verdant balcony garden.
Springtime! The
blushingly white blossoms are
larger than my fully
outstretched hand!
Mar 20:
lnteractive website &
app with all Lamma ferry
schedules
Mar 19:
Great, honest, insightful poem
about Lamma Life, by our ex-Ice
Cream Lady, who has been closely watching YSW Main
Street comings/goings and Lamma
Life for
years. Excerpts:
"Lamma is marijuana, alcohol
and foul language in more than
77 dialects.
Lamma is desperate, single,
Chinese ladies moving to the
island, hoping to look for
Western men that are in high
supply on the small island.
Lamma is a place where you
can have your ex, present and
future lover living on the same
street, hugging and saying hi to
one another.
Lamma is my love at first
sight."
Listen to the entire short poem
and comment.
Mar 18:
 Lamma Map from Life Jungle, a
South Lamma-based NGO I've never
heard of before. Their website
and courses look most interesting, even
promoting Living Lamma's recent
biodiversity survey:
https://www.LifeJungle.org /
Upcoming Events:
Estuary Ecology Eco-Tour,
Photography Workshop,
Biodiversity Exhibition,
Biodiversity Exhibition Closing
Ceremony,
Ecology Search,
Sok Kwu Wan Mural Art.
Mar 14:
Photo by
Joe the Quadrocopter Aviator.
He's been featured in the
Lamma-zine several times, one of
the very first people to fly
drones over Lamma in 2013. He
was even doing it for Govt. and
other paying clients back then!
P.S. Over 100
Likes and Loves on
Facebook so far, an
extremely high number for a
private Lamma group.
Mar 10:
 Just booked online
for BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine,
no wait at all. Quick and
simple. Ap Lei Chau Sports
Centre would be closest for
Lammaites, especially Pak
Kokians. Just off the
cross-harbour gaido from the
Aberdeen ferry pier.
Feeling great about it, actually
looking forward eagerly to next
Tue, after 1 year of relentless,
daily gloom & doom news!
View from Aberdeen's
Lamma ferry pier to Ap Lei Chau
Sports Centre, my 1. vaccination
next week!
https://www.covidvaccine.gov.hk/en/
Mar 9:
Mysterious March 1 press release
about a recent "Temple of
Feminization" on Lamma.
Ever heard of it?
"Gloss Studio announced
today that their studio has
changed locations. Originally
located at The Temple of
Feminization on Lamma Island, it
has moved to the Eaton HK Hotel
in Yau Ma Tei."
Mysterious March 1 press
release about a recent "Temple
of Feminization" on Lamma
Mar 8:
A new path to a coastal village
house under construction, just
concreted a few months ago in my
neighbourhood, has been
reclaimed by nature already. If
you don't use it, you lose it,
Lamma-style.
Mar 5:
Very pleasant surprise yesterday
in our maibox! $250 in free
dining coupons for eating in
Lamma and HK Island restaurants,
paid for by HK Electric. They
announced this "relief measure"
just a few weeks ago:
"HK Electric will continue
to launch the 'Care and
Share' SME Caterers Subsidy
Scheme, posting in batches
dining coupon sets
worth $250 each to eligible
families and other customers in
need for use at more than 200
participating eateries located
on Hong Kong and Lamma islands."
More
info:
HK Electric Expands
Relief Measures to Benefit More
SMEs and Needy Families.
Lamma restaurants accepting the
dining coupons.
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