We catch the Lamma ferry from Central terminal and the crossing now takes between 30 and 40 minutes. Arriving in Yung Shue Wan, Main Street offers a host of relatively cheap seafood restaurants. It's like running the gauntlet. The menus and prices are pretty similar to each other, so take your pick.
I won't eat anything that has been swimming in Honk Kong's polluted waters, and manage to find an authentic Szichuan chicken packed with red chillies, The Boy takes a scrummy mutton in Beijing onions and N. takes the chicken in cashew nuts. It comes in a set which includes rice and drink and we eat enough to explode for HK$220.
Heading off Main Street to head up to the Viewpoint, there are a number of shops selling hippiesque clothes the path meanders along to a couple of small, clean and tidy beaches with an excellent back-drop of the Lamma power station. Pretty surreal!
The path across to Sok Kwo Wan goes past two pagodas and toward the final inlet you can see the kamikaze caves used for Japanese defense purposes during World War Two. At the entrance of the village is an interesting Tin Hau temple. The walks takes about 50 minutes at a leisurely pace.
My favourite restaurant in Sok Kwo Wan - the Wan Kee, has closed down, so we just grab a drink at the Fuk Kee, before heading onto the Family Trail. This does a short circuit around the central part of the Island. We enjoy the sunset over the power station, before heading on the 7.20 to Hong Kong Island which arrives back at Victoria just in time to see the 8pm nightly laser show.
No time for a visit to Cheung Chau unfortunately. This outlying island offers a much more traditional and authentic experience. There are plenty of trails around offering great vistas, small fishing villages and even a few old pirate caves.
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