Maestr-OKK-bLoG: HK Trip - Day Two (Ocean Park n Typhoon. lol)

Day two of the trip we set off early morning with plans to go to the Ocean Park to conquer all the rides. But all gone down to the drain as our trip there was dampen by strong winds of code 3, and further later a code 8 typhoon warning was issued and we were advised not to leave the hotel and all shops are closing due to the weather...

We first set off with a rather dissappointing breakfast at the bar. Yes, the hotel only have a bar at the first floor, but the deco was rather nice. The food selections were dissappointing, with the usual bread and cereals, there were ham but no sausages, got eggs but hard boil ones, got dumplings but they were tough... In the whole. LOUSY!

The pathetic breakfast...

The restaurant looks nice though. :)

After an unfullfilling dinner, we head off to Ocean park. The concierge told us to grab a taxi ride to the park, which will take less then 10mins. Heeding his advise, we hop onto the cab happily, looking forward to the rides in the park, and the famed pandas.

Our gang at the Ocean Park entrance

The tickets

We reach the park 10mins to 10am and was surprised that there was already long queues at the admission gates. On closer look, we realized that the park was not open yet, which means, what we saw, was what will be the number of people in the park.

We rush straight to the panda habitat once we stepped into the park. Which is also the nearest to the entrance.

Jia Jia

An An

Close up thanks to the Tamron 55-200mm lens.

It still looks decent in the morning.

After the pandas, it was already starting to drizzle. Trying to avoid the rain, we went into a ride tat appears pretty empty. Turn out, it was a express ride to the other part of the park, where all the rides are. We missed quite a bit of stuffs on this side of the park, but think that we will return, since Sophia wants to take the cable car down. Quick walk around the park, we found ourself in a cafeteria. Since we were waiting for the 1100 hrs ocean theater show. we grabbed some roast meat noodles. This time, its not tat fantastic as the meat were much lousier then the ones we ate the night before.

The show turns out to be rather spectacular. Using the 50-200mm tammy lens. i managed to take some pretty close up shots. All thanks to the bright background and it wasnt raining that heavily.

I felt this is a rather clear n sharp image. :)

At 200mm, with a bright sky, i managed to set a aperture of f6.3 and shutter of 1/250.

Finally a nice pic of the feeding.

f5.6 n 1/500 nice!

Leap for the ball!

Back flip!

Next we stopped at some games shop to play some games to win some plush toys. Turnout, we left the place with HK$150 short but 3 small toys and 1 tiny one. :P

HK was totally bochap when trying to get the balls in!

Next we went to the aquarium which house a number of marine species. However the aquarium was dark, hence we couldn't managed to grab a decent picture.

Fish!

Bigger fish!

Sea turtle

Next we went to the jelly fish aquarium. This is much smaller then the one in Japan. But the jellyfish were jus as entertaining. :)

One of my best shots in the jellyfish aquarium.

After all these, the rain began to pour and all rides was stopped as the government issued a code 3 typhoon warning across the island. Dissappointed, we left the ride side of the park and proceed back to the cable car to return back to the entrance. But the cable car wasnt the best ride back as there were many stops through out the long ride. We guessed it was because the wind was too strong and we were staying too much. Lol Imagine sitting approximately 30storey high above the seas, helplessly in a swinging cable car... Man...

Back at the first park, we visited another panda habitat and this time we saw the red panda! Looks so much like a raccoon! (Josh jus told me the "shifu" in "Kungfu Panda" was actually a red panda! lol)

Panda Close shots

The RED panda! Like raccoon hor~

This one jus eat n eat n eat... lol Maybe a Pigda

So cute hor!

Managed to catch this one with the tongue! CUTE!

Lastly, we had a small meal at the park, hoping that the typhoon warning will be lifted. But sadly, it didnt and we have to leave the place, disappointed...

Back at the hotel, we realized a typhoon was forming nearby and the government had issued a code 8 typhoon warning and heard the most shops will be closed by 8pm. Hence we are pretty stuck in the hotel...

Dinner was at a nice posh restaurant in our sister chain hotel, Cosmopolitan Hotel. Ours is Cosmos hotel. :)

Soup that we ordered. Tofu soup n Beef soup.

We ordered beef with kailan, but they serve us something else. To took two bites, thinking that its beef tender. Turns out to be some nice shell fish. lol Cost HK$128 instead of the HK$88 we ordered.