The snorting, clear, fabulous monster weather continues - Southerly winds - blowing Guandong's factory smog somewhere else and leaving us roasting and smiling under cornflower skies. It's 10.15am - thirty degrees - and we zoom out of Clearwater Bay marina heading for Dai Long Wan - a piece of Hong Kong paradise.
This is Jan-Eric - he's from Hamburg - and lives in Sheung Sze Wan - he was at our house for dinner last night, Iris and their boys (Fynn is Aiden's big mate) are in Germany at the moment, and invited us out - bliss - a lovely treat.
I have to pin Ev in a grip and zap with the other hand to get him into a boat pic - he's smiling for the first time today - woke up grumpy, got some trashy behavior going - and narrowly avoided being sentenced to a morning at home. Smiling now though - thinking of that big hole he's going to dig on the beach - and loving being out on the water at speed.
It's a day of staggering beauty - water is not-yet-summer-sickly-warm, cool enough, perfect. Tide's heading out. Jan has to move the anchor - Ange contemplates a swim.
Ev explains where the hole needs to appear
Ange emerges, Blue Lagoon.
Across the beach there's a Daipaidong - early afternoon munch for hungry lads - Ange translates the options into will and won't eat (Ev, what would you like for lunch? Hotdogs. Mmm - not the right place - OK, I'll surprise you) - Ev keeps an eye - Aiden makes sure we've not forgotten that he's really a ninja.
Chopsticks blur in anticipation - but the batteries are already showing fade - sun and swimming drained.
Home by 3pm - the day stunning but now dangerously hot - naked bums rehydrate on iced apple juice and aircon - outside the sea swelters and the jungle zings with cicadas.
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