Guro Eric says (6/09)

A Day with my kids……

On 31 May 2009, I and my three kids went on Hiking at Shing Mun Country Park , it’s about 8km walk to complete the loop. We wake up a little bit late due to late night sleep and undecided weather condition. Finally we board the mini bus before 12:00 noon and just about a perfect cloudy day for hiking.

Eriz my eldest daughter was 17, Josh my eldest son was 13, and Nenel my youngest son was 9, at first I am not sure if my youngest boy can complete the loop of 8 km on partly hilly terrain. As we started the walk they were fascinated by the beauty of the scenery of the half filled Shing mun reservoir, the century old Eucalyptus trees, the cold water of the mountain streams, the reddish-brown soil of the trail and the mountain breeze in the air.

We stopped on some picnic sites along the way intermittently to enjoy the beauty of the nature, share some jokes and old stories and share a bite of chocolates, and of course share a pose for pictures for a lifetime memories. Half way along the trail, there are cows and just about near the main Dam some monkeys can be seen from the wild and it’s about 5 o’clock when we finally reach the point where we started and we concluded it a day.

From this short period of time together, I have shared with them my passion and love of nature and I can see from them that I have aroused their interest as well as to move their own inherited passion and love of nature to grow and hoping that when the right time comes they will share the same passion and love of natures to their kids as well as to protect and respect the mother nature.

Let us all protect our nature for the future generation and enjoy them………

For the video clip of the Hiking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8k5uly7CQo

Or search :”De Leon Family Hiking 2009” at Youtube.