Tai Po Lung Mei Beach, Public beach in Tai Po District, Hong Kong.
Tai Po Lung Mei Beach is a 200-metre artificial sandy beach on Ting Kok Road, opened in 2021 and managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. It is Tai Po District's first beach, with a lifeguard tower marked "2" standing on the sand and Tolo Harbour behind it.
The site was originally a mudflat before being transformed into an artificial beach through a government project completed in 2021. This development created a new recreational destination for the local community.
The name Lung Mei comes from Lung Mei Village, the village in Tai Po near which the beach was built. Since opening in 2021, the beach has drawn crowds of swimmers and families, and its lifeguard towers, including the white tower marked with the numeral 2, are staffed during the swimming season. In the first days after opening, more than a hundred swimmers were injured by sea urchins washed into the shallow water at low tide.
The 200-metre beach sits on Ting Kok Road near Lung Mei Village, with parking for 100 cars, three coach bays and ten motorcycle spaces. Changing rooms, showers, toilets and a shark net are on site. At low tide watch for sea urchins and tiger fish in the shallows, which stung over a hundred bathers in the first five days after opening.
The beach borders the ecologically important Ting Kok Mangrove Forest and faces the Ma Shi Chau Special Area across the water. This natural setting offers visitors a chance to observe coastal ecosystems.
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