Finally, the weather warmed up this past weekend. It was so sunny on Saturday that I finally visited the HK Wetland Park. Even though it opened around 2 years ago, I never got around to visiting because

A) It seemed so far away
B) It didn't seem that interesting.

Well, turns out that it only takes a 45 minute bus ride from Admiralty (route 967) but the un-interesting part proved to be true. It's a big park and it's meant to educate about nature and conservation, but the fact is there's very little to see or do there. The biggest problem is that it's smack in the middle of Tin Shui Wai housing estates, so every time you look up you see tall apartment buildings in the background. It really kills the Natural Reserve mood.
I guess fans of birdwatching will be happy to have somewhere to go that's more accessible than the Mai Po Reserve; there are lots of mud huts for enthusiasts to sit in and wait for interesting birds to show up, but the urban location of the park probably prevents a lot of birds from migrating there.

Another attraction is Pui Pui the crocodile. Can you see him in this photo?

How about now?
A bouncy, wobbly floating bridge, with no educational or conservational value, but probably fun for the kids to run up and down.



The visit wasn't a complete loss though. I manged to get an S-Curve photo of this nice looking walkway:






BTW, I originally framed the photo so that the walkway extended all the way to the bottom left corner. But I decided to crop a little higher to create a panoramic frame, and to move the walkway a little off-center to create the illusion of being a path that the viewer can step into. Which version looks better?


Version B:


Oh, and in case this looks familiar, it's because I did a similar (and better) shot a long time ago at Mai Po Reserve:



Anyways, HK Wetland Park isn't a bad place to visit, it's just not a "Wow, I'm so glad I came!" place. It's basically the kind of place you go to just for the sake of saying that you've been there. Kind of like HK Disney Land (actually, haven't visited that either...)