sai wan fort tunnel [c.1943- ]
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Submitted by 80sKid on Sun, 2013-09-29 17:10
Current condition:
Ruin
Date Place completed:
c.1943-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
one of two tunnel systems I found skirting round Sai Wan Fort. This one has two entrances, one overlooking what was the bay of Sai Wan. Fairly extensive. The main entrance is easy to find (once you get there): on the road up to the fort, head north around the hill from where there is some construction next to a resting area. There is a few minutes of bush whacking but there is a path created by workers who've been making the hillside safer. Below is a large metal fence to stop falling rocks, while next to the entrance a large boulder has been conspicuously shored up with a concrete wall. The other tunnel system, which is more extensive still, is around the same height but further north.
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re: tunnel
The other is equally marked by a shored up boulder. The other entrances would be very difficult to spot
A couple of good finds there
A couple of good finds there - well, except for the rats! With cooler weather in sight, you have opened this year's "crashing through the undergrowth" season.
Regards, David
thanks
was surprised about the rats, first time I've seem them in a tunnel. there were at least six of them, wonder what they fed on. There are probably more tunnels around the summit but the undergrowth is fairly dense
Tunnel Location
Going back to this area this weekend. Looking to find this tunnel complex and the adjacent one. Is the marker for this accurate. Since 80s kid described finding it "skirting around the fort" which is not super close to the marker on the map.
anywho.. seems i will be doing some bush crashing since the other road around is locked up
re: Tunnel Location
Sorry, I haven't been to this tunnel, so I can't give any better directions. If you find it, please could you note down the lat & lon if you have GPS, and I'll update the marker's location if needed.
Been looking for it and the
Been looking for it and the other marker last week without success. We went uphill on a slope from the service reservoir facing Heng Fa Chuen. Upon reaching the horse track, we turned left trying to find any traces of previous visits.
While going up the slope, there's a very faint trace of possibility for a chance to cut through the forest heading to the marker, but we decided not to fight against the dense vegetation without more certainty.
Photos if you find it!
Never found this one, would love photos. Good luck H Lo