Thunderstorms in Lamma

We were invited out to lunch at Lamma.

It had been a while since we had been and we were going to a new restaurant being raved about by everyone we knew.  So it was the perfect opportunity for a nice family outing.  

Taking the ferry across seemed to already be enough to keep Pickle entertained, but he seemed to also enjoy the lunch and the walk we had through the small streets of Lamma.

After lunch, I thought it would be nice for all of us to go for a walk over to some of the nice beaches of Lamma.  One of our friends at lunch had lived in Hong Kong his whole life and had never visited Lamma before.  This was shocking to me and I thought we needed to remedy this by showing him some of the more lovely parts of the island.  We trekked through the middle of the island and found ourselves standing of the pretty beaches on the other side.

It turns out this was a poor decision by me.

As we stood on the beach looking out and admiring the view.  The sky began to turn black.  We didn't take too much notice at first, but the change became starker and there was a dramatic feel to the sky.  We decided it was time to go.  Sadly for us, this decision had come too late and the skies opened on us just as we took our first few steps off the beach.

The rain came down in sheets, and we all huddled together under of the nearby sun shelters waiting for it to pass.