I'm officially a junkie!

Well not in the way that you're thinking, but I did go junking for the first time this weekend. We had a holiday on Friday so I went with a bunch of coworkers on a junk trip which I've heard about pretty much since I arrived. It sounded so elusive and intriguing so naturally, I jumped at my first chance to go on one of these "junk" trips. So Friday, we took off from Sai Kung! This is everyone waiting at the dock for their boats. It looks super foggy here but once you actually get out away from the island, it was really sunny!


Junk trips are day long boat trips that go out to different remote beaches surrounding Hong Kong. You go with about 25 people, sometimes you know everyone on the boat, sometimes you only know the people you go with. It's a whole day affair. You leave at 10am and don't return until 6pm and it's basically a day of sun bathing, swimming, banana boating, drinking, eating, and enjoying good conversation with your friends. Check out our boat!


At first I thought it would be a boat trip in that we'd be on a moving boat the entire time, visiting various beaches. That is not the case, you ride in the boat for about 30 - 40 minutes to ONE beach and then you anchor by the beach. And that's it! You stay there until the trips over and the boat takes you back! I hope I'm not the only one who thinks that's strange. I was expecting either to be in a moving boat the entire day or visiting various beaches. But nope, it was alot simpler than that. So once the boat anchors, it's up to you to make your day - you can swim over to the beach, you can jump off the boat and swim around the boat, you can just sun bathe on the boat, you can eat and drink, you can take a nap, basically do whatever, but you're there for the next 8 hours so you gotta be prepared. I had so much fun with everyone. I wish I took some pictures of the sun but I was too busy enjoying it to take photos. Here's some of the aftermath of the sun...needless to say, sun tuckers you out!




Crystal was, we'll say...eager...for the banana boat ride...


Lounging in the lower deck...and see all those other boats? There were like 5 or 6 anchored in the same area as us so you could potentially go boat hopping if you liked.


The remote beach we anchored by...


Candids always make the funniest photos


It was the perfect remedy to my cloudy blues. Oh and see all the little islands behind us? They're everywhere, we didn't sail anywhere where they're weren't little islands all around us. It was gorgeous! Felt like you really left Hong Kong without going too far. It was nice.