Jun 30:  No Water!

Domestic disaster struck all of North Lamma yesterday, announced by message in our village's WhatsApp group at 10:30am:
"The guys digging in new drains in Yung Shue Wan have just broken our main water pipe. No water for at least 5-8 hours."

The updates on the repairs during the waking hours of the day - without any water for cooking, washing, showering, toilet flushing, etc. - kept on coming throughout the day.
In typical Lamma fashion, some people had good advice:

Photo of the actual damaged water pipes -
Water tanks set up at the ferry pier for residents

Free bottled water available at our only village shop, including free deliveries by VV to walking-impaired residents -
Our rooftop flush water tank still didn't work after the water supply came back on, 8.5 hours later!

It took almost a week for the repair guy to diagnose the problem causing no toilet flush water in our entire village house and get the stuck valve ordered and replaced!

June 29:  Welcome to Lamma Island

Sampan Rest. seawall painting has just been completed. But who's the artist of this "official" graffiti, we wonder?
Lamma-zine interview, we hope!

June 28:  Spot the Sunrise Contrail

Today, before 6am, the early birds (greeting the sunrise by singing loudly all around me) catch the worms, err, the jet plane contrail.

Top picture, Pak Kok Shan, our local hill and hiking/mountain biking playground in the foreground, Aberdeen on HK Island in the background, across the East Lamma Channel, one of the busiest container shipping channels worldwide.

Lower picture, Pak Kok Shan often looks a bit like a volcano about to erupt at sunrise.

June 19:  FINALLY!

June 12:  Wow!

Dusting off my tripod tonight, setting it up on the smouldering, buggy rooftop, plugging a power bank into the portable 20x mini optical zoom...

It was worth the small trouble as for the first time in many days, the sun wasn't hiding behind clouds at the exact time, less than 1 minute long, of setting behind the Lantau Island peaks.

June 11:  Happy Buggy Sunday

Photos by Peter Kline, master wildlife (especially birds) photographer.

June 4:  Sok Kwu Wan Tin Hau Festival

My photo album of visiting South Lamma's Tin Hau Festival today

Time lapse of building the Sok Kwu Wan Canto Opera tent

Dragonboat races today! (both videos by Mike Chau)

June 3:  Getting CABLE, Finally!

I took a little stroll yesterday to Northern-most Lamma, to the brand-new landing point of the undersea fiberoptic Internet cable, just connected and encased in concrete. 20+ years of waiting for Faster Broadband For Lamma.

While waiting, the Internet broadband speeds dropped by half to HK's slowest speed (below 3Mbps) and doubled in price by the sole provider.

Looking forward to 1000+Mbps fiber-to-the home later this month, they promise, but initially only for those lucky enough to live not too far from this landing point above, like myself. Hurrah!
We can now finally retire these locally-popular Lamma Brand baseball caps:

P.S. Jun 2: Sunday, June 11, installation of 1000M fiber to our home.

P.S. Jun 9: Installation postponed to June 25. Keeping my cheap, fast and reliable 5G Wifi router as a backup; just to be safe to always have a vital, working Internet connection in future.

P.S. Jun 10: As usual, I couldn't resist playing with the iconic (at least locally) photo above, via the brand-new Photoshop's AI Generative Fills:

June 2:  Abandoned Visions in an Abandoned House

Dickie wrote: "We held an art show in an abandoned house featuring 14 talented artists last weekend.
Guests were brought in from Central and blindfolded to maintain the location's secrecy.
Attendees enjoyed Champagne and canapés and were given tours of the breathtaking artworks on display by the artists themselves."

June 1:  Lightning Storm