10:12 AM
I have been hiking loads. It's really the best time of the year to hike because the weather is so cool and snakes are hopefully by now hibernating ( due to Global Warming, maybe they are not) I recently had an adventure which I thought was pretty fun and it's little adventures like these that remind me that I am truly relishing and maximizing every moment I have. On a 6 hour hike from Shek Pik Reservoir to Tai O, we got lost and by the time we realised how lost we were, it was completely dark. It was a good thing, we had a torchlight with us that we managed to clumsily stumbled to a safe spot.
We tried to call 999 but we unfortunately had a foreign phone reception. We called 112 -- the China emergency number and they told us they couldn't help us. Finally, we SMSed some friends and asked them to help us call the cops. We didn't know how far we were from Tai O but we knew exactly where we were because of specific landmarks - we were near a temple and we were by the beach.
It was a cold night and trust me when you're outdoors, it's even colder. Was I scared? Not really, I was prepared to spend the night there. It's been years since I last camping, I wished that I was a tad bit better equipped. Before there was TV and Nintendo consoles, I wondered if people then looked up to the sky more often than we did. I haven't for a long while and when I looked up that night, the sky was just dotted with stars. I had no ideas, they are so close to one another. Or maybe I just forgot they are.. I went back to the basics that night.
Not long after, 10 firefighters came and we were escorted back to Tai O town.. We had a complete entourage of firefighters, police and paramedics waiting for us. I suppose in a town as small as Tai O they were excited to have any forms of emergencies, as small as it might be. They did looked a bit dissapointed when they found out none of us were injured.
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