wilsondring

Great photos Geoff .. although I am not that old, when my father was still working with the MTRC, we often use to take the company boat out for seafood lunch.  We use to have to take the speedboat and land on the beach, .. I do not remember having a public pier, do you know when that was built.

I also remember that there was a big fire at the seafood restaurant at some stage, probably late 80s or early 90s .. I am asking if my dad has any of the old photos, will post if I get hold of any ...

wilsondring

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Original posted by wgeoff at 30/07/2013 10:07
Hi Wilson

If you mean the pier joining to the restaurant, that has been there as long as I've been going to Po Toi, so from 2005 at least.
There was a big fire, in the 1990s I think, affecting the re ...

I think I first started going for seafood lunch around 1984 ish ... and there was only a wooden platform connecting the restaurant to the boats (which is still currently there) but the public pier which we use now from Aberdeen/Stanley certainly was not there, or at least it was not in service because we could only access by speedboat due to depth of the water.  The currently one as mentioned by John, would certainly have been a replacement built in the mid-90s by this time, I would have been boarding school and hence coming back less.

its so interesting going back to po toi for the first time in early-2012 as a birder as oppose to just for hiking/seafood ..