This blog is on vacation.
Thanks everyone for your lovely notes. Hugs all.
My girl is switching jobs, and she's got a week off in the switch. So we're on vacation down on Hainan Island near Hong Kong. She keeps saying, "It's no Thailand," but I'm enjoying the tropical weather and strange fruit.
Two days in and we're already sunburnt lobster red. We spun the map and randomly chose a beach town to visit. The place is oddly empty, ruled by a castle like resort we can't afford. The whole place feels rather ghostly and has weirded us out. We walked a sunset on the beach, but rather than being romantic we were hypnotized by the strange death-like swirl of the coastal tides. I named the beach "The Enchanted Beach" cuz I felt it's the kind of beach that lures many a traveler to walk a mile into the ocean, never to be seen again. She was less subtle and called it "Creepy Beach."
Thanks everyone for your lovely notes. Hugs all.
My girl is switching jobs, and she's got a week off in the switch. So we're on vacation down on Hainan Island near Hong Kong. She keeps saying, "It's no Thailand," but I'm enjoying the tropical weather and strange fruit.
Two days in and we're already sunburnt lobster red. We spun the map and randomly chose a beach town to visit. The place is oddly empty, ruled by a castle like resort we can't afford. The whole place feels rather ghostly and has weirded us out. We walked a sunset on the beach, but rather than being romantic we were hypnotized by the strange death-like swirl of the coastal tides. I named the beach "The Enchanted Beach" cuz I felt it's the kind of beach that lures many a traveler to walk a mile into the ocean, never to be seen again. She was less subtle and called it "Creepy Beach."
You did resist the enchantment of the beach? Did you?
According to a magazine I found on my shelves (Sciences & Voyages, September 1937) Hainan looks like this:
"accessing to the island is uneasy: as the port of Ho-Hao lacks depth for harboring steamers, voyagers need to wait floodtime for boarding the sampans that will leave them ashore...
...however, Ho-Hao is a modern city with avenues, hotels, stores, telephones... a recently build road allows driving around the island and accessing superb points of view."
(translated from French by yours truly, apologies!)
Probably these informations need a little updating.
[Edited on Apr 11, 2006 3:53PM]