I went to Ocean Park with two friends today. One of them has lived in Hong Kong for more than 35 years but this was the first time he had been to the marine mammal cum amusement park! And I think he chose the right time to do so. This might seem like a strange thing to say since there currently is a pandemic going on. But because of the pandemic, there are few (no?) foreign tourists -- including misbehaving Mainland Chinese ones -- in Hong Kong and, as a result, Ocean Park was far less crowded than it would have been most other years!
This is not to say that the park was deserted though. What with today being a Sunday, there were a number of local visitors to the place, including a good number of families with young 'uns. By the way, Hong Kong had 3,780 new Covid cases today. In 2020 or 2021, that news would have freaked me out so much that I would have stayed at home rather than gone out to some place like Ocean Park -- and for the record, Ocean Park was closed to the public for a time in 2020. Today, however, that statistic didn't faze me much at all. And, in fact, it was seen as a relatively positive one since it's actually the lowest number of daily Covid cases that Hong Kong has had in months -- to be precise, since July 20th of this year!
-- and even now, there still are hints of panda mania there
go on its scenic cable car ride :)
got me making involuntary cooing noises! :D
at Ocean Park: penguins being fed!
Hair Raiser roller coaster which has a maximum speed
is 88 kilometers per hour! :)
-- a shark with quite the scary looking snout!
-- I'd give that accolade to the penguins! -- but I do
still think it's cool to go see the pandas there, especially
though that are doing something besides sleeping! :D
2 comments:
Hi There,
They used to have quite a lot of Hammerheads in the Shark's aquarium, but in recent years most of them died of unspecified reasons. Don't know if they have been replenished as they are quite expensive to acquire.
Those rays of various sizes are astonishing though.
T
Hi T --
I didn't see any hammerhead sharks on Sunday. So maybe they haven't been replenished! And yes, the rays are astonishing to view. Also, the creature known as a shovelnose guitarfish which looks like a cross between a ray and a shark that previously was thought to be a shark but now has been revealed to be a type of ray!
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