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| Ocean Park Entrance |
Kitsune's birthday just passed, and to celebrate we went to the Georgia Aquarium. It's kind of tradition now for us to go on our birthdays since you get in free! Much rather pay one pass than two.
Anyways, we love Aquariums, and being there made me think of Ocean Park in Hong Kong. It's an Amusement Park with roller coasters and games, a Zoo with Pandas, Arctic Foxes, and other animals (we didn't do much of the zoo portion) and an Aquarium. We only were able to see half of the Aquarium offerings, the shark area and jelly fish part. We ran out of time before we were able to enter the large Aquarium building. Next time we definitely need to go as soon as they open so we can get the chance to see it all!
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| Side of the Mountain at Ocean Park Enterance |
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Ocean Park. We didn't really stop to do anything around the entrance, thinking we would start at the top and work our way back down. Instead of taking the Train that goes through the mountain, we chose the sky cable cars. I'm not terribly fond of heights (read: terrified) so the cars were a bit nerve wracking (read: white knuckled hold on Kitsune and the railing). Still, I think it was good that we gave it a shot and the view was impressive. When we headed back down, we took the Mountain Train.
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| Little Bear checking out the view from our lunch table |
We jumped on the Roller coaster rides first and had a total blast. Kistune bought our tickets with a bundle that included lunch at one of the restaurants inside the park, so we chose the BayView Restaurant since it was close to where we were. The food was mediocre, but the view was incredible. So once the rides and lunch were squared away, we delved more into the aquarium options.
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| Jellyfish Shrubbery on the way to Sea Jelly Spectacular |
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| Littlebear Big Jelly! He was impressed with the shrubbery |
Sea Jelly Spectacular was super cool. Like...literally super cool. I was freezing. The air was really low for some reason. Also, it was super cool in the "this is awesome!" sense. We had the place mostly too ourselves which made it even better.
The jelly's have a home of their own, the building is entirely for jellyfish. There are narrow winding walkway area, and it's pretty dark inside with the tanks glowing dark blues, purples, etc.
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| Jelly's going to the light |
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| Jelly Close Up |
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| Upside Down Jelly's |
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| Tiny Jelly Blobs |
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| Awesome Jelly Wall |
The Jellyfish wall really neat. The small hallway opens into a larger room that has mirrors on the sides. The main wall is this jellyfish tank that would revolve colors to soft music. With the mirrors reflecting the main wall, it felt like you were surrounded by all the jellyfish. I loved that it looks like the have clover's inside them
I wasn't able to get any good pictures from the next area, but it was the best part. Small cylinder stand alone tanks dotted the room, with lights flashing and changing color inside them in time to Toccata & Fugue in D Minor. I have some video, but I am apparently utter TRASH at videoing T.T super unfortunate.
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| Super Creep Toothy Shark |
There is an enormous fish tank where they have sharks and other fishes. You start at the very top of the tank looking down, then slowly wind your way down the tank to the bottom where the really creepy sharks are lurking. Eerily floating silently by, their beady eyes following your movements.
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| This guy watched me the whole time I was trying to get a clear picture. Super unerving |
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| Bottom of the tank fishers |
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| Very top of the tank, where you start your fishy adventure |
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| Making our way down, some not so creepy sharks |
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| Walking into the Arctic exhibit, awesome Polar Bear |
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| Cute statutes of Arctic Foxes and Snowy Owl |
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| Found some wooden Bear Carvings! |
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| Arctic Foxer! Soooo fluff! |
We had just exited the gift shop area for the Arctic Exhibition, and saw a doorway that we didn't notice before. So, in we go and low and behold....there were 4 Artic Foxers! OMG they are soooooo fluffy. And super cute.
What sucked hard core however, there was a family there with a young boy who kept screaming and pounding on the glass. Of course, there is a sign that says please be quiet and don't touch the glass.
Sigh
Poor foxer was so stressed that he kept attacking the glass where the kid was. At first it seemed kinda cute, but quickly devolved into horrifying and so sad once we realized he wasn't playing, he was really upset. The whole time we stayed there, waiting for the family to leave so we could see what they would act like without the noise, but they just never left. Frustrating, and honestly made me super angry. Poor foxer family.
Despite all the nonsense, we loved getting to actually see Arctic Foxes in person. I was really surprised by their size, and just how fluffy their tails were. I really want to go back and see them again, hopefully when they are happy.
That was the last thing we were able to do on our trip, the park was closing down. We hopped on the train to take us down through the mountain, and unfortunately the Grand Aquarium had already locked their doors. So next time! Made our way to the rail-car and went back to Ovolo, our hotel, picked up our bags that they were holding for us, then made our way to our next destination.
