Today in Hong Kong I went on a junk cruise! This is basically a booze cruise that expats here do as often as they can. Some companies even have their own boats for their employees.
I thought it would be one of those refurbished old junks with the funny red sails that looks out of Taipan. There are a few of these boats that go around in the harbor. I think that Aqua Restaurant Group has one that will take you from Hong Kong island to their restaurants in Kowloon.
This was sorta shaped like a junk, but once on it feels like a regular boat. I was a little disappointed, as I am sure many first timers are! I was the only American and the only first timer (I think).
Still, it was so relaxing to sit up top in the breeze, chatting away while girls brought us nibblies and drinks. The sea breezes were flowing and beer and bad wine was available too.
We motored out to an island (there are about 200 hundred islands off this side of Hong Kong) where there was a small beach. I jumped off the top of the junk and swam to the beach where beer and, thank goodness, water was waiting for us in a cooler.
When the sun shined through, the water was clear aqua and the beach sugary white.
A leisurely swim back (I really didn't want to get out) to the boat brought me there in time for lunch. A pretty good lunch with steak, salmon, and chicken and a yummy eggplant dish (and other stuff too, like salad).
THIS is the life!!
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