An Umbrella At HK Wetland Park

This place is beyond cool for entertaining toddlers…

We were impressed with the educational conservation messages – which could either mean HK Wetland Park rocks some serious fierce juice or we are easily impressed losers…

The Umbrella, finding his way in…

Well-mannered Umbrellas should queue patiently for their tickets

He say “Tiger no hands, have paws.”

We say how does Tiger hold his umbrella?

Inside that cave mangrove swamp-like tanks housing lots of fresh fish and a few live freshwater crocodiles met their first Umbrella.

Umbrella meets Talking Fish. Fish also sings “Please Don’t Take My Wetlands Away” to the tune of “You Are My Sunshine.”

Interestingly, after Rockstar pushed the English button and wandered off, one of the attendants came over and switch the singing fish back to Cantonese. Which was when we realized we hadn’t overheard any English background conversations in this place. So English language readers, check this park out, we L-O-V-E it!

“BIIIG Bug!”

When you jump on it little colorful bugs show on the screens and you hear music. Not sure Rockstar was meant to be jumping though.

Room for the umbrella too…

A moment ago Rockstar saw a tank with similar turtle shells – but with their heads, legs and tails still attached and kicking about. I went to town on the explanation of where the rest of these turtle had gone…

OK this one just really, really pisses me off – how old was the turtle who had to die for someone to strum a banjo? WHY did a turtle die for this rubbish? Kings was saying maybe they recycled a dead turtle but still the thought is disgusting.

Press the buttons and the wooden doors open…

The car lights up (if you guess correctly how many liters of water it takes to make the car)…

The whole comic strip lights up – and you get to explain what all those pictures mean…

And there’re many more where this one came from…

And so The Umbrella leaves, well satisfied.

With a little love from Daddy.

No Umbrellas were hurt in the making of this blog post.

And a parting post – the yellow sign says “40% of animal species live in wetlands”. We didn’t know that. But we know we love the cool way they recycled all those oyster shells.