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If a display of myriad color fishes conducting an orchestrated frolic in the scintillating water is your ultimate idea of spending a weekend; or if infinite shades of blue and green is what you are looking for after the bustle of urban Hong Kong, then the Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park in Hong Kong is the answer to your wishes. The Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park in Hong Kong is located in a bay that lies in the northern region of the Sai Kung Peninsula in the Sai Kung District. The park whose name means ‘a bay below the sea' was christened on 5 th July 1996 and is also referred to as “Jones Cove”. The Sai Kung West Country Park is located south of it. What is unique about the Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park of Hong Kong is the fact that though it occupies a relatively small bay area; the park nevertheless boasts of an abundant variety in marine life. The Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park of Hong Kong is one of the first parks and nature reserves that developed and modernized Hong Kong. The park records a tremendous biological diversity. Spread across a relatively small 2.6 Sq Km, the park also houses Mangrove species in the estuary region of the park. The area in which the Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park in Hong Kong is situated once used to serve as a limekiln. There are as many as 4 defunct limekilns still to be found in the area; though two of them are in ruins. The limekiln business, which is one of Hong Kong's oldest, involved the process of refining lime from corals, oysters and other shells by heating them. The Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park in Hong Kong is also special because it does not require much of a hassle to reach it; a direct road route connects the park. The marine section of the Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park in Hong Kong comprises of species like stony corals, hard corals, fishes associated with coral reefs, starfish, shell varieties like oysters and jellyfish to name a few. The mangrove varieties are contained only in 0.53 hectares of the entire area of the Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park of Hong Kong. The species that can be found there are Kandelia candel, Avicennia marina, Aegicera corniculatum and many more. However, if you thought that marine life, corals and mangrove life is all that makes the Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park of Hong Kong, then you are mistaken in a big way. It is also ‘The' destination to head for on your next family holiday. It will not just give you a lot of information on marine life, but will also keep you thrilled and entertained all through.
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