Tag: Feral

When I lived in Hong Kong, I would sometimes hike up to The Peak, the highest point of the many hills on Hong Kong Island. It’s home to some of the swankiest residences in the territory, a holdover from colonial days when the ruling Brits would sit on their porches drinking Pimm’s C...

The shearwater washed ashore in big surf. Half-dead, perhaps from a long flight or failed fishing expedition, it staggered up the beach. Most of the other young ones had already taken wing, beginning the 16,000 km odyssey to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. Their parents had already left weeks earli...