Fields East of Sek Kong camp

Thanks Peter,

I think that you have probably found the location.   I have just re-read our holiday diary from August 1981 and see that we had taken a bus from Kowloon to Yuen Long, where unfortunately I didn't take any photographs, and then caught another bus to Kam Tin from a temporary bus terminus on some waste land immediatley on the East of Yuen Long, where I think that the road crossed a river.  After visiting the walled village we walked in fierce heat (Judy wrote that her hand was so slippery she could hardly hold her umbrella up to ward off the sun) through the town (again no photographs) and all the way along the main road to and past the Sek Kong camp, where our diary notes that the Ghurkhas were stationed.  The diary also reads that the visit to the New Territories was specifically to take photographs of the fields and rural scenes, so in the days of the limitations of film I might have decided not to bother with buildings. According to the diary, somewhere possibly not far beyond the Sek Kong camp, we decided that it was too hot for comfort and decided to catch a bus back to Kowloon. The diary notes that the bus took us over a mountain pass, the only likely one would have been on the Twisk Route.  A group of boy and girl scouts each carrying heavy rucksacks boarded the bus on the pass, and that area would have been a very likely place for them to have been hiking on.  Any thoughts, anyone?  Best wishes, Andrew

Hi Peter,

I sent the previous comment unintentionally, and then changed it before seeing your comment!  I think that the photograph was taken somewhere between the Sek Kong camp and the junction just above the 'San' of San Lung Wai on the 1952 map.  I now see on the map that a bus travelling from the West would take the southern brown road at that junction and then head round and south to go over theTwisk road.  Andrew