Photo courtesy of Don Ady:
The print was larger than most of my inherited family pictures with quite good resolution. Taken when? My guess is 1950's or early 1960's, and probably it is a copy given to my Dad. Looking toward Hong Kong in the haze.
I am not sure about the unobtrusive "X", which I also noticed. It is near our stone shack, the highest in camp. It was built by Dobson, an old time mission doctor (Presbyterian) in Yeung Kong where my family was for awhile. My parents got it from Dobson and enlarged it with a main room with two bunks possible, a tiny two bunkroom, tiny second bathroom, and tiny mudroom. Originally one fair sized room with tiny kitchen and tiny toilet. Roof cistern proviced running water by gravity, and we used a
nearby spring, named after Dobson, for drinking. The photo was probably shot from our shack. Incidentally looters in WWII tore up the roof for the reinforcing rods. Either due to economic desperation or Japs made them do it, unsure. Either way, many roofs were destroyed.
The camp was on a saddle. We were below Sunset Peak and on that (West) end. There is a line of peaks we called "the ridges" going North (leftward). The foremost called "Rocky Top" is not so relatively high as the shot aspcet makes it seem. The other end of camp was in fact slightly higher as I recall than Rocky Top.
Date picture taken
1960s
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