weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Glad I brought you back some memories, Susan, I was cruising on this harbor very frequently from 1968-71!

topcat Loc: Alameda, CA

Very nice set. Thanks for the tour

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you topcat, I appreciate your visit and comment!

dj moore Loc: Florida panhandle

Nice pictures. I was surprised I didn't see more boats/ships/tugs with an average of 600 ships per day. How did you manage to keep them out of the pictures? I enjoyed the ferries though.
So, if they are reclaiming or expanding (?) does that mean they are increasing their land into the harbor for more waterfront property?

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thanks for looking in on the travelogue, djm. Good question about the number of boats. What we see here on this passage aboard the Star Ferry is a crossing of the narrowest part of the harbor, from Central to Kowloon. Most of the boats coming into the harbor don't come into this narrow area, but come in a bit more to the west, where the large commercial piers are. I will present better views of that commercial side of the harbor in a couple of weeks, when we have a final look at the harbor from "The Peak", the highest point on Hong Kong Island.

That "waterfront property" has been a very elusive thing. With all the land reclamation that has been going on for the last 100+ years, the harbor has shrunk, and what once was a waterfront property has been relegated to a secondary row, and then moved more and more back, even to the count of a dozen streets or so, especially in Wan Chai. But now it has come to the point where the width and efficiency of the harbor is being endangered, so I think in the choke points, there will not be any further land reclamations, but there is plenty of secondary space where this "growing land mass" can be accommodated - HK is, besides Gibraltar, one of the very few places that I know where the land surface keeps growing.