Above is the sculpture and foggy background in front of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. We became temporary members here and had a very nice time enjoying their facility.

In fact, on the left sits Scott, myself, Sandy and Chuck in the bar at the RHKYC!

It's interesting to look across the anchorage at the RHKYC and see the big buildings of the city.

These are just shots we took as we walked around Hong Kong at night.

These lanterns made a nice picture.

These are incense coils on the left.

This is Hong Kong times a thousand. You just can't believe all the high rise apartment buildings.

A little outside the city you see every space available in agricultural planting.

The Lee Kee Company is a boat chandlery in Sai Kung. We visited often as we were getting Quest ready for her 2010 voyage.

One of the interesting phenomena was the treatment of dogs in Sai Kung, as you see in the photo to the left. We even saw dogs sitting at the table of our favorite restaurant.

There are lots of small businesses in Sai Kung. The vegetable markets were especially beautiful.

That was a seafood restaurant next to the water where one could choose their very own dinner.

These big guys really draw a crowd!

And then there was the dragon parade. We had to go have our picture taken with the main attraction. Here's Vivian!

We had a forward looking sonar placed on Quest as well as replacing our depth sounder, so we had to spend two nights on the hard - UGH! We also had our keel repainted on the spots where we damaged her (twice) in the Solomon Islands.

This is a view of the bay where Hebe Haven is located. It's pretty removed from Hong Kong Central and fairly laid back in contrast to the big city.

Here we are at the Happy Valley Race Track. It was a neat experience to look up from the grounds of the race track and see the big building of Hong Kong all around.

We went up on the Tramway and had a spectacular view of Hong Kong. It was amazing to look across and down on the tallest buildings in the city.

Here we are with Vivian and Dennis enjoying the view. The haze is normal!

The closer buildings are apartment villages. The tallest building in HK is in the upper left.

Regardless of where you are in Hong Kong you get a feeling of the press of a very large population. This was also true of mainland China. Millions of people living all around and moving to and fro, from home to job to shopping and entertainment, as well as enjoying public places. We took a walk up the escalator to the higher part of the city. On the way was a place where many walkways came together and there all over the place were a couple of hundred people sitting on ground covers having a picnic and hanging out. It seemed odd to us, but nobody seemed to think it was strange.