Fishing for HK History Traditional Cache
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March 2011: As I predicted when I set this cache, the sea view is now gone, blocked by a big metal sheet. But you can still find the cache, and if you walk into the parking lot of the hotel nearby you will get a great view of the reclamation work and the harbor beyond it.
Original Listing:
The site for this geocache is a tiny stretch of harbor that may not be on the coast for much longer, given the close proximity of dredges in the harbor filling in land. Every time I’ve been here on the weekend there have been people hanging out with fishing lines in the water. Right now you can see the work for a new tunnel connecting Wan Chai and the Easter Corridor.
To get here, you’ll have to walk down Oil Street. In the span of just one block you pass through some significant reminders of HK’s history.
1) Government Supplies Department / Hong Kong Royal Yacht Club Clubhouse.
Currently the only use of this site is the Wilson parking company. But the oldest building on the site was opened in 1905, the Clubhouse of the Hong Kong Royal Yacht Club. (That particular building is the one that lies right on Electric Road.) When reclamation made the site unsuitable for the clubhouse of a sailing club, the HKRYC gave this site to the government in return for their current clubhouse on Kellett Island, in Deep Water Bay.
2) Harbor Grand Hotel
This recently opened luxury hotel has amazing views from its “Le 188” restaurant and bar, 188 referring to the degrees of view from the top. (They do have a dress code, no shorts / sandals for men, as I found out to my chagrin once on a hot summer day.) If you look a little bit into who owns the Harbor Grand, you can trace it back to Li Kai Shing, a famous local tycoon, and from there even further back to John Hutchison, who founded a shipping company in HK in the 1860s. (Li Kai Shing bought the Hutchison Whampoa holding company in 1979.)
3) Eastern Island Corridor
You’ll walk underneath this expressway as you get closer to GZ. This was part of the first section, finished in 1984, to relieve congestion in the increasingly developed eastern district. Although to be honest it often feels as if HK still hasn’t figured out what to do about traffic congestion, with the problem seeming to get worse and worse every year.
Additional Hints
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