T3-B15

March 18 2014:
  Today I spent all day at Ocean Park. Ocean Park is this really cool theme park that's built on the side of a mountain. First, we went on a cable car to the other side of the mountain. This is because Ocean Park is split up into two sections: The Waterfront and The Summit. When you enter the park, you're at the Waterfront section. To get to the Summit, you have to either take a cable car over top of the mountain or you can take a train through the mountain. We decided to take the cable car and the view was amazing! At the summit you find a lot of rides and this is more the amusement park side. There are roller coasters, a Ferris wheel, raft rides, everything! I decided that I would go on all the scariest rides, and I did. The top three scariest, in order from least to greatest, were: the dragon, the hair raiser, and the flash. None of them were that bad though...
  After some coaster riding, we took the train down to the Waterfront. At the Waterfront, it's more relaxed. There's a place to see giant pandas, the kids section is there, and the great aquarium is located there as well. The great aquarium was really cool, but it was packed! There were so many people there you had to fight your way through a crowd to see anything. 
  Unfortunately, people aren't very good at following instructions. On every tank there is a sticker with a no-flash sign. This is because flash photos are a disturbance to the animals. But, like I said, people don't follow instructions and so pretty much every photo was taken with flash on. This actually makes me really upset because these animals have so many flashes in their faces that if they aren't blind, they're never in peace. This one animal (I don' even know what it was) was really near the glass, so everyone was taking pictures of it. And with every flash, you could see it's eyes grow wider and it's pupils shrink away from all the light. It was really sad to see... Other than that, Ocean Park was a great experience (and the photographers weren't the park's fault) and I would definitely recommend it to anyone planning to visit Hong Kong.