An island of dogs

This past Saturday, Alley, Ben, Dhwani, Dan and I went hiking around Lantau island, on the southern side. We first walked to Pui O beach, where a restaurant was setting up for a wedding (the beach was mostly empty). Over my time here, I've discovered that the beaches of Hong Kong are really different from each other, especially when it comes to sand. The sand of Pui O was charcoal gray and felt similar to mud. Crabs would dig themselves into the sand and spit up little balls of sand. Dan found a crab (why does he always find crabs?) and I watched it scramble under. There were semi-wild dogs everywhere; they were sleeping all over the place, their paws and fur matted with salt water and sand. We then found Cheung Cha beach, had dinner there, and watched a cow walk across the beach at night. I was really excited, but then the waitress told us that there were usually a group of twenty of them, and this one - a female - was lost from the group and just wandering. How lonely.