Diving Thoughts

William Lindesay OBE is presenting a lecture called “Great Wall Revisited” at The Royal Geographical Society – Hong Kong on Thursday 17 December 2009. Mr. Lindesay is the first person in modern times to walk the whole 2,500km length of the wall, in 1987, following in the footsteps of William Geil who published the first ever book on the wall in November 1909. Over the last 5 years, Mr. Lindesay has been comparing Mr. Weil’s wall of 100 years ago with the Wall today. He will be presenting photographs and commentary of this comparison.

The talk is at 2/F Olympic House, So Kong Po, Causeway Bay. Drinks Reception 6.30 pm; Lecture 7.30 pm

There are more details on the RGS – HK website.

Been a bit quiet recently as I was away in New Zealand for a fortnight.  Anyone who’s been will be able to tell you that it’s a stunningly beautiful country. I had a great time and it was a bit of a shock to come back to Hong Kong. It was a lovely sunny day with a clear blue sky when I left Auckland, and it was a sunny day with a clear blue sky when I arrived back at Chek Lap Kok. But the Hong Kong “blue” sky was marred by a brown pall of pollution which we were looking down on as the plane descended. To make matters worse, the denuded Hong Kong hills contrasted with the lush forets I’d been looking at for the previous 2 weeks. I’ve never been quite so depressed returning to Hong Kong.

Anyway I’ll write some updates on NZ over the next couple of weeks. I had a great time and even managed to get a couple of dives in on the Poor Knights.