July 6 (Lunar calendar: May 19), 2023 Thursday | Dawnxisoul393art
《 The Coast of Grass Island 》, painted by dawnxisoul393 The Grass Island of Hong Kong Part 1: An island away from the hustle The island we went to sketch and paint on is a lesser-known island called "Grass Island". This island is not far from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where Daniel did two years of research work when he was in the fieldwork phase of his Doctoral research and returned to Hong Kong from the UK to do fieldwork for his dissertation. The island is almost at the easternmost tip of Hong Kong, near the country park in eastern Sai Kung, and has an area of 1.69 square kilometers. This outlying island north of Sai Kung, with its green grass, blue sea, blue sky, and fishermen's culture, allowed Daniel to get away from the hustle and bustle and relax his mind after his busy research work at that time. Because of the remote location, not many ferries traveled there every day, so the number of people going there was quite small. At ...