A visit to the Wetland Park

Another interesting place we found when we went exploring for new sights on 1st June was the Hong Kong Wetland Park at Tin Shui Wai. Commercialised as it may be, there is still a 60-hectares of "natural" wetland for visitors to explore. There is a 10,000sq.ft. visitor center where visitors can learn interesting facts about the living creatures of the wetland in Hong Kong and also about the ecosystem.

We did not have much time that day as we went in at 4pm and the park closes at 5pm. We sort of ran through the visitor center and went straight to the outdoors. I wished they had another route leading directly to the outdoors. But as usual for Hong Kong, they have to force visitors to see the souvenir shop and also the honorable sponsors' banners and logos displayed at the exhibition halls. *Sigh*

After rushing through the exhibition halls, we finally arrived at the outdoors and I liked what I saw. For once, I could see no tall building but just a wide area of greenery and water. We fed the fishes at the ponds with bread crumbs that we had saved for this trip. It felt quite good to be able to do something like this in Hong Kong. Reminded me of Botanical Gardens in Singapore where I used to bring the kids to feed the fishes and the swans on weekends. I also remember myself going to the Botanical Gardens as a kid with my own parents...happy memories of my beloved garden...

Oops, I am writing out of topic again...ok, ok, back to Hong Kong.

We also saw some very interesting crabs with odd size pincers, one big and one small. There were plenty of them moving up and down the mud, making the scene looked like blinking stars in the mud. We didn't get to see the birds though. The security guards were telling us that the birds will come in only during the winter months, so it may worth another visit in December. All in all, the Wetland Park is nice and interesting as long as you don't turn around to see the towering apartment buildings of Tin Shu Wai right across the road...

D and I feeding the fishes at the pond.

Lotus Pond