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Hong Kong Marine Department
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18/08/2025
It’s been a long-awaited challenge since our windless inaugural attempt. This time, we’re getting smarter! We roll only when the wind says go! So, here we are: Round Two, 45KM from Stanley ➡ Lantau. Click the link below to learn more about this fresh, hot-off-the-press community fundraising challenge. Don’t miss the early bird deadline! - https://www.foracleanerocean.com/events/winds-of-change-ride-for-the-tide-45km-stanley
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My name is Hillian. I’m a self-employed branded content video and documentary producer. Apart from that, I’m also a kitesurfing fanatic. Being a kitesurfer and a wannabe filmmaker I suppose. My life has very much revolved around the two.
The story I’m telling you right now is still very much glue to the two passions of my life. I’ve been a kitesurfer for 17 years so I spend a lot of time in the sea and have also been in some close call life and death experience, which gives me perspectives to respect nature while challenging it.
Since I started kiting back here in Asia maybe a decade ago. I’ve always aware of the garbage problem around the beach and the coastal shoreline. It is so server and so ubiquitous that the garbages piling up in one corner of the beach almost feels like a blind spot sometimes. And whether deliberately or just frustratingly, most of the time just turn a blind eye or just don’t know what to do about it. While I certainly do not object to beach cleaning activities. But I must admit that I don’t always have the stomach for it or feel like doing it enough or even believe in it. For those reasons, I’ve always felt guilty about it. I want to do something about it someday when I've become more privileged or financially stable maybe.
But somehow late last year. I saw Boyan Slat’s The Ocean Cleanup project just launched off the SF Bay. I was inspired by all the young people nowadays. I just think to myself, now is the time to do something about it. So while I was kitesurfing on Lantau Island seeing the Macau Speed boats passing by. Why don’t I create a fundraising event with a bunch of kitesurfers to kitesurf from HK to Macau to raise fund for an ongoing ocean invention or to use that fund to incubate innovators who have the heart to invent something to improve the ocean garbage problems. Something that will help us to make our ocean garbage disappeared! So on one hand, this is for a very practical reason and on the others. It is intended to raise awareness with an eye-catching event. Hundreds of colourful kites flying down the delta, where a large number of floating garbage are from.
So since last Oct 2018, I’ve been researching, consulting and finding ways to make this unprecedented cross-country event together. While I'm still struggling and figuring a lot of things out. I made the first trial run on the 1st March and became the first female kitesurfer to surf the 55km Pearl Delta in the name of raising awareness for my pending ocean environmental project. Have I made an impact? I dare not to say so but I’m still hoping one day my vision will come true. And creating the platform through my passion that I believe is going to make an impact.
