Senior Moments

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Aberdeen is an area of southwestern Hong Kong Island, and includes Aberdeen Harbor, which is one of nine harbors in Hong Kong.

In 1987 I was a member of a team of professors from Heidelberg College in Ohio who were going to mainline Chine to teach English as a second language.  We flew into Hong Kong, and before going into China we spent several days touring the area.

Back then Aberdeen was known for its floating village and floating restaurants.  We didn’t visit any of the restaurants, but we were able to visit the floating village while touring the harbor on a sampan.  The residents of the village were fishermen, who lived with their families on boats

There were also boat yards in Aberdeen where boats were built and retired.

The area was beginning to change, as there were several high rise buildings around the harbor.

After touring the harbor we visited some of the outlying areas,  We visited Repulse Bay, a beautiful body of water that got it’s name (so a story goes) from a British  warship, HMS Repulse, that anchored there is the mid-nineteenth century.  The bay is beautiful, regardless of how it got it’s name.

To see more pictures from Aberdeen, click HERE