Part of the crowd in Ocean Park

This would be mostly a post of pictures. On our last day of our HK trip, we went to Ocean Park, with my pal, MY, who has beaten to me in blogging about it here.

We tried to be early, in anticipation of a huge crowd, to get to the rides before the queue starts picking up, but it was of no use. Everywhere we went, the waiting times were easily between 45 to 1 hour long. Sigh.. OP has become too popular for an easy leisure theme park enjoyment.

Dora the explorer, with map and backpack!

The first ride for korkor. I lost the guts to ride with him.

The 2nd ride for him while meimei and didi were getting bored
"When are we going to have some fun?"

"Whoosh!! Down we go!"

When we met up, the boys clicked together like magnets, and it was a lot more merrier together. Off we went to Pacific Pier to watch sea lions and seals, which by now I still haven't been able to differentiate yet. Don't both look the same?

Eww.. I thought it looked like a big giant leech!

The Q to this attraction was damn long when I was here the first time, and it's still the same this time. Almost an hour's queue, I think.

A very good view when at the top.

This set of Jaws teeth gained much interest among the visitors there. We had to q up to be "eaten" by the shark. But meimei was pouting because I didn't let her to disrupt others while they took their picture, while the both boys were, as always, not cooperative. Sigh!

While korkor was having all the fun going for all the rides, both of these younger ones have to be satisfied with walking around aimlessly with me.

Can't even get the biggest prize for us, what la!

When he was finally allowed into this ride, he ran in, took off his glasses, took off his shoes, put them aside and ran to find a vacant seat. He was the only one to take off the shoes, btw, and I giggled to see him doing that. I was telling MY lucky he didn't start taking off his clothes and pants as well..

Rushing off to be in time for the dolphin show, and that was the crowd by then. It was like a current in a river, you can't stop when you are walking among the crowd there, else you would be trampled all over. Didn't look so good, huh?

We found some seats, though not with the best view. I haven't watched the dolphins performance before, as the last time I been there, it was closed for renovation. I admit this is one of the 2 attractions I was looking forward to in OP. The other being the cable car ride.

The show was so-so, everyone just got excited with exclamations of "Oohs.." when the dolphins jump out from the water, and that was about the only thing which was interesting in the whole show.

It was really too sad for me that the Q for the cable car was miles long, that we had to forget about it and take the other option, via bus ride. My heart weeped as I was just longing so much to see the magnificient view from the cable car again. Damn those people!


We reached the other side in no time and feeling hungry, bought some hot dogs to eat. It was about to get dark too, and we saw some performances, had a go at the children's park, and lastly the koala bear sanctuary.

Meimei's first thrill ride.

We finally step out from OP when it was about to close, and off for dinner back at Mongkok. As it's the last day of our HK tour, banker wouldn't "die heart" to get his hands on his pair of sports shoes, and walked around to buy those shoes. One pair for him, one pair for me. Though I'm not quite sure how many times I use those shoes actually. We reached back at the hotel abt 11pm that night, and we had yet to pack our bags. That was because we had to go off early in the morning the next day for our return flight.

So, overall, it was a pleasant trip, although too exhaustive from the endless walking and entertaining the children's fuss.