Physical Features
Physical Features
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Constructive beach with our base camp set up. |
Wave cut platform, south east corner of the island, facing the greatest fetch. Highest point on the island, 76 meters in the background. |
View of the east side of the island from the pier with Agricultural, Fisheries and Conservation Boat. |
Southwest shore, on top top of the wave cut platform. |
South coast, with cliffs and wave cut platforms. |
Port Island, just outside of the Tolo Channel mouth. |
Highest point on TPC, 47 meters, with wave cut platforms visible at low tide. |
Sharp's Peak, near Chek Keng. |
Looking down on the wave cut platform from the highest point. |
Beach profile- Chau Mei Nov 2008. |
Sedimentary rock outcrops. |
Sedimentary rock outcrops looking toward Ma Wan. |
Broken up bedrock moved along the shoreline under extreme wave energy conditions. |
Wave cut notch found on the destructive beach, west side of the island. |
Destructive beach nestled between stack and wave cut platforms, west side of island. |
Low energy beach. |
Chert outcrop, exposed on west side of beach. (left center of the photo) |
Looking inland along the leading edge of the chert layer. |
Cross bedding feature found on east coast. |
Coastal weathering. |
Dried up river bed, near Tai Tong. |
Cactus growing on north east coast. |
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Home sweet home - a low energy beach. |
Outcrop of the bedrock, facing our camp. |
High energy beach - birms evident. |
High energy beach - birms evident. |
High energy beach - birms evident. |
Rock outcrop, north east end of island. |
Biological weathering. |
Cliff Chemical weathering - |
Coastal chemical weathering. |
Coastal chemical weathering |
Honeycomb weathering |
Honeycomb weathering |
Sea Cave
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Sea cave - west side of island. |
Vertical strata, |
Stream erosion. |
Chert layer - Dragons back. |
Chert layer. |
Wild Beautiful flowers |
Pat Sin Range, enroute. |
Iron pyrites |
Coastal weathering - along weak joints. |
Cliff failure. |
On top of the old stack. |
Coastal weathering. |
Strata. |
Algae growth in a tide pool. |
The best beach on the island. |
Close-up shot of the chert layer. |
Pothole - erosional hole. |
Great erosional features |
Large slab of sedimentary rock which has been flipped over by wave action. |
Sha Tau Bay |
Shingle beach north of Sha Tau. |
Sha Tau stream bed blocked by beach shingle which was washed in from the typhoon |
Sand drift over the walkway connecting Chau Mei with Tai Tong. |
