Ocean Park

Today, Hugo, Rachel and three new friends from church and I went to Ocean Park. It's set on a hill (as is virtually everything in Hong Kong) and it was an absolute hoot. I was so annoyed when I arrived though, to discover I'd forgotten the camera! You can see pictures of it at:
http://www.oceanpark.com.hk/eng/main/index.html
It's like a cross between Dreamworld and Sea World, and I thought it was more fun than Disneyland, which had more shows than rides, in my opinion. We bought annual passes, and an adult's, a child's and a student's cost about $200 AUD. Today we went on the roller coaster, the cable car, and a ferris wheel. The problem was that we had to walk up so many stairs and hills in terrible heat and humidity that we all withered after about two hours, and we had to come home to the air conditioning. I didn't get to see the pandas! If we go again in this heat, I think we'll go to do something specific, like see the pandas, or the dolphin shows, and not try to spend a whole day there. The dolphin pool was tantalisingly gorgeous - I just wanted to fall in. That's probably hard to imagine if you're sitting in Brisbane in jumper... It has a flume ride, but after the mountain climb to get to it, we found it closed. Next time I promise we'll take photos!