S & E Asia 202 - Hong Kong 07: Victoria Harbour - The site that established Hong Kong
Susan yamakawa wrote:
I went there 50 years ago👍
Glad I brought you back some memories, Susan, I was cruising on this harbor very frequently from 1968-71!
Very nice set. Thanks for the tour
topcat wrote:
Very nice set. Thanks for the tour
Thank you topcat, I appreciate your visit and comment!
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?
dj moore wrote:
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?
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.
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