Big Wave Bay Beach

This guide to Big Wave Bay Beach in Hong Kong turns from the surfers below toward a headland rock carved with Bronze Age petroglyphs, swirling spirals and animal shapes chipped by hand into the coastal stone. You'll hear who researchers think made them and why the design faces out toward the South China Sea, along with the twentieth-century story of how the carvings went unnoticed until nineteen seventy. Best heard standing just past the second lifeguard station, facing the water the carvers once faced.