We are surrounded by water in Hong Kong - and Discovery Bay, for that matter, and it's gorgeous. You can see water from every window in our apartment and we have a beach that looks straight out of a postcard. Honestly, it's kind of ruined me - it's tough to imagine living someplace that doesn't have a water view.
And then you realize that we share the water with all the barges and ferries and cruise ships that roll into Victoria Harbor - a water highway that makes the Hudson River look like a desolate country road. And that water doesn't seem quite so nice anymore. One day a week, our picturesque beach has more trash than a garbage dump. Of course the powers-that-be quickly send the minions out to clean it up before too many people take notice. (And THANK GOD for them!)
I tell you all of this because, in spite of it, we have friends who swim in the water here and claim it's just peachy-keen. They swear up and down that it's clean and that they haven't caught anything yet. I used to give them the benefit of the doubt (although I never stepped a pinkie toe in that water!)
Then today, I walk outside my front door and see the following:
I have no idea what it is, but it sure gives the term "swim at your own risk" a whole new meaning...
And then you realize that we share the water with all the barges and ferries and cruise ships that roll into Victoria Harbor - a water highway that makes the Hudson River look like a desolate country road. And that water doesn't seem quite so nice anymore. One day a week, our picturesque beach has more trash than a garbage dump. Of course the powers-that-be quickly send the minions out to clean it up before too many people take notice. (And THANK GOD for them!)
I tell you all of this because, in spite of it, we have friends who swim in the water here and claim it's just peachy-keen. They swear up and down that it's clean and that they haven't caught anything yet. I used to give them the benefit of the doubt (although I never stepped a pinkie toe in that water!)
Then today, I walk outside my front door and see the following:
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