First encounter with Zhanjiang

After finishing our journey in Shaoguan, Guangzhou and Zhongshan, we took a three-hour intercity train straight to Zhanjiang. This was my first meeting with Zhanjiang. Our first tour started from Jinsha Bay, where we took a red-billed gull cruise to tour the ten-mile military port. Zhanjiang is the location of the headquarters of our country's South Sea Fleet, and Zhanjiang Port is exactly the anchorage of the South Sea Fleet's ships. Among our high school classmates, several were admitted to military academies, and later two of them joined the South Sea Fleet and still work in Guangzhou and Zhanjiang after retirement. This trip to Southern Guangdong is also a journey to revisit the friendship of classmates. Due to the military importance of the military port, we dare not post close-up photos of the ships. I remember in the early 1980s, when we were in high school, the military singer Su Xiaoming sang a song 'Night of the Military Port', which was popular all over the country, and we were familiar with it. I just don't know whether our old classmates who joined the navy were influenced by this song? Green years are crazier than songs, have you ever guarded the sea in your dreams? After experiencing the vast clouds and waters, you still return as a young man.