Ocean Park

After breakfast we went to the the tour office in the foyer and were lucky enough to get on a tour to Ocean park or it was called Panda Theme Park. We had thirty minutes before pick up at 10.10am.

It seemed that small buses went out to various areas and then met a bigger bus which took us to the venue which was on the other side of Hong Kong Island. The guide said that normally it would take an hour to get there but today being Good Friday and a holiday the traffic was less and so it would be approx 45 minutes. Cost for both was $HK880 or $159. When I hear how many dollars I cringe but then realise to divide by 5 and its not so bad. The entry cost to the park is $HK375. It is the same as a theme park at home the entry fee covers everything except food and souvenirs.

The Aquarium had a wait time of 60 mins to get in so we went straight to the train and across to the other side where the big thrill seeker rides were plus north and south poles.

Next we went to a wet water ride, had to queue for about ten minutes, there was a time thing at each entrance to show how long the wait would be.

There were spurts of water at many spots, couldn’t take photos while going around luckily I had taken photos of others while we were waiting.

saw heaps of things and went up in a tower, it took us up with about a hundred others revolving as it went did a full 360 up the top before coming down again.

Dolphin and seal show

and then lined up to take the cable car back down the mountain. Yep, I went in a cable car and didn’t scream once! (My first cable car ride was in Singapore and it went over water, I was scared sh.........ss. A few years later we did the same trip again but Warren ordered a glass bottomed one the sh...! ) This one stopped for a few minutes on the way down and we were about a hundred metres off the ground, I was glad when it got going again. The cars seated six but we were put by ourselves as there was a group of six in front of us and six behind us.

The weather was sunny and humid when we got there but turned to cloudy and fine great day to go weather wise.

Saw pandas as well as red panda. Just after I took this photo, he got up and wandered over to the back of the enclosure then he came back and lay on the rock with his backside facing the glass and people. then  he let nature take its course and pooed! well, that got everyone talking and laughing.

Finally we got into the aquarium and it was just incredible. Could take photos but no flash, my camera is set up auto to take flash and it doesn’t work very well without the flash. It was 5.15 once we had finished there. We didn’t go to the theatre as "Adventures in Australia" was showing and we figured we had probably seen most of what they were showing, plus there was a very long queue.

I stepped into a shop to take this photo, could not believe how many koala things there were to buy. 

Had a late lunch/early dinner at a bakery ($HK149 ouch!) a coke and a ham and salad sandwich for Warren, I had a small chicken pie and we shared a fruit salad and a welcome sit down. Bus was picking us up at 6.30pm.