Far from the Madding Crowd (遠離塵囂)

Yesterday wasn't so sunny. But I didn't want to be pushed around by the holiday crowd milling around shopping malls. I tried another route up Tai Tung Shan. The ascent was quite steep. But after that, it was simply skirting paths along the watersheds or the cols between the various hills. The route was full of surprise discoveries.

Some beautiful creepers at the side of a tree.

This tree in the distance look so fresh after a slight drizzle.

This tiny plant didn't lose any time. It pushed up new leaves.

This tree did the same

I thought I found traces of some ancient rock writing but on closer inspection, I discovered that they were merely patterns formed by some dried up wort.

One of the mountains I saw after the stiff climb up to the highest path along the side of the various mountains.

A twisted ball of fern leaf before it opens out I found along the mountain path

Some yellow leaves

The hills were still filled with late blooming camellias

its heart.



A view of the hills that I covered

Some huge moss like plants I found on the surface of a rock high up in the mountains

A close up of its leaf-like flowers

Other creepers were fighting for space upon the surface of this rock with the mosses

Other hills on my way to Broken Head Camp

One side of the hill on which the camp was built

I could see mountains and hills getting fainter and fainter with distance.

I found these growing at a shadowy spot shortly before I arrived at the camp

Close by were these fir like leaves of another type of fern

Finally the Broken Head Camp

Some worts growing on the planks sealing up the window of one of the camp houses.

A pattern formed by pieces peeling off its plastic window cover

Another such pattern

A view of Mui Wo on the way down

The path on the way down Pak Kung Au

A view of another part of the downward path

A farewell view of the mountain path I traversed.