Junking it

On Saturday 12th May I woke up to find that Mike had just arrived home from Frankfurt with a collection of Germany meats including bacon. Yum Bacon!!! Jess and I decide that a bacon and egg breakfast was in order. After eating a wonderful breakfast I headed off to the city for a quick walk around before we went out on the Junk that afternoon. A Junk is a traditional Chinese boat, similar to the ones below.

A typical Hong Kong Sailing Junk

A Junk like Jess and Mike's

Mike and I headed down to the Junk at around 2pm and waited for Jess, Charlie and a few of Jess and Mike’s friends to join use. Jess and Mike’s Junk is moored near Deep Water Bay, on the south side of Hong Kong island. We sent the day cruising around the island, through Repulse bay and into south bay. At south bay we jumped off and went for a bit of a swim. Mike took the kids and his mates out in the small dingy to explore the beach while Jess and I sat in inflatable lifesaving rings off the back of the Junk and had a few drinks until..... we found ourselves surrounded by huge jellyfish.

One of the evil Jellyfish
Apparently the jellyfish don’t hurt you but I was not so keen to test this theory. Marge tried to save us by fishing the jellyfish out with this crazy fishing hook. She managed to kind of catch one but we were not so keen on her bring it into the boat so it was released to live another day.

Marge fishing for Jellyfish

The rest of the afternoon was spent sitting on the Junk drinking and reading. Ohh what a prefect Saturday in Hong Kong.