I cannot believe my crude digital camera can obtain these breathtaking
pictures:
As we flew from the Airport eastwards, we passed over the Big
Olive Creek Reservoir and some parts of GreenDragonHead coastal estates.
Then the Dig Gau Bridge between Mainland and Ching-I Island, plus
a bit of the Ching Ma bridge at bottome.
More to the east, 3 more bridges crossing from Ching-I to ChuenWan area.
This is Mei Foo area, and I can pinpoint the building of my parents.
This is a most nostalgic picture. For my children who don't know much
about Kowloon: See the 3 main streets converging at the spot on right side
next to some empty land? The empty land is the old KaiTak Airport. The
3 roads are from left to right: Boundary St., Prince Edward Rd., Argyle St.
The lump of dark square under the airplane engine is the football fields
south of Boundary St., which starts from under the airplane engine
towards the right. To the right is the big Prince Edward Rd.
(continued) There is a hill in foreground between Prince Edward
and Argyle fully developed with skyscraping shopping centers is where
the hotel Rachelle and Jeremiah stayed in 2001 or so. Next to it somewhere
on the left is QES, Queen Elizabeth School, my Alma Mater. Kowloontong area
is just next to the Airplane Engine, and Shumshuipo, where I grew up
and lived till 1963, is on bottom left. So daily I walked half a mile
from home to QES from 1955 till 59. At the very bottom, that black "cylinder"
is where Argyle St. intersects Nathan Rd, the main artery of Kowloon.
This is the Mongkok area, most crowded community in the whole world.
See whether some of you can identify Kowloon City Baptist Church.
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This is what remained of the old KaiTak Airport, the old Runway. The
water to the north is a smelly ugly patch of sea water, waiting to be filled
with soil for more building.
This is the JurngGwunOh area where my parents live today. It was a
bay of water before, but filled with soil by HK city planners.
This is a glympse of all the beaches and islands on east side of HK
new territories, a most beautiful area. The HKUST (Univ. of Sciene and
Technology) is somewhere down there.
Last glympse of HK: Clear Water Bay below, where brother WWI took us
for a ride to look at people flying gliders.
