Rocks

Along the very east part of Hong Kong, most of the land was formed with ancient volcanic rocks. This volcanic rocks were cooled down in a form of hexagonal column. Some of them were near the shore while others were standing at more than hundred meters above the sea.

I visited Fa Shan and Pak Lap for this trip. They were both part of the Geopark and located near the east dam of the High Island Reservoir. Over the hilltop of Fa Shan, it offered some of the best panoramic views of the Po Pin Chau. Po Pin Chau was now a standalone island that appeared to be sharply cutaway in the middle! Rock columns inside the island formulated a perpendicular and precipitous cliff. Visitors were all thrilled by this nature masterpiece and some even tried to get to the mountain edge in order to just take a selfie.

For Pak Lap, it provided a more fascinating rocky coastline with those hexagonal volcanic columns at one side and other rocks at another side. We tried to walk a bit over the rocks here yet we had to be careful as some of them were quite slippery as they had been soaked into the sea for ages. Watching these rocks up close in a touching distance, given their gigantic size and massive weight, it was still quite difficult to imagine this area was once a 20km wide volcano million years ago.