The Hong Kong Wetland Park

Well, Sarah got to post the pregnancy related blog entry of the week, but don't you guys think that I'm sidelined that easily! I wanted to write a post about how Sam and I went to the Hong Kong Wetland Park last Sunday.

As polluted as Hong Kong is, they do a good job of preserving land for parks. Something like 40% of Hong Kong is actually protected! Who knew?!? Some of that protected land is wetlands that have been preserved and they've built a great park with a visitors center that's kind of like a museum. I've been wanting to go for awhile and since Sarah wanted to get some more activity in (in order to get the baby out) we got together with Sarah's co-worker, Cathy and her family and we made an outing of it. (you can see Cathy's daughter in the above photo with us)

We had loads of fun and saw lots of animals including these guys.


Here's a little birdy that we were able to snap from inside one of the several blinds that the park service has built around the grounds. I wish I could tell you what this guy was. Maybe he's a Whiteas Birdus withus Yellowus Beakus?


Here's a little crab we were able to get close enough to from the little boardwalk path.

There were tons of other animals too including mudskippers, snakes and lots of fish and lilies and stuff. We had a great time looking around and even saw an example of otter poop! Yay for otter poop! You think I'm kidding, but they have it specially cordoned off and even had a little scope pointing at it so you could make sure to see it. Alas, no photo, so only those who were there could truly appreciate the grandness that is otter poop.

This was probably our last real "outing" to a far away place before Petunia deigns to greet us (and get assigned her real name) so we were glad to take advantage of it. SAM was a real trooper, walking around outside for hours carrying her extra cargo, but luckily, the weather was relatively cool, there were plenty of benches to rest on and transportation to and from the park was convenient. Hooray for Hong Kong!