Original title: The GF and I visited Manila Ocean Park with another ARFCOM member...


Here are some pics! @PatriotAR15 was in town to do some stuff at the embassy, and we decided to meet up and hang out a bit. The plan was originally to head over to Intramuros, but the weather turned a bit shitty so we instead decided to make a run through ocean park. Anyone that's seen my trip threads should know it's one of my favorite places to visit here in Manila.

I'm pretty sure he had a great time too. He may come in and post some pics here as well, he had his Canon() camera with him.

On the way there, I snapped this quick pic out the window of a speeding train - I'll have to make a point to visit this at some point.



While searching for his hotel, we encountered this:



Don't see many of those around anymore. The outside is a bit rough but the inside looked in pretty good condition.

Our first stop as we walked from his hotel was Rizal Park.



This is the Rizal monument. It's a very important fixture here in Manila, as well as the rest of the Philippines as a whole. It's not just a memorial to a national hero, but it's also kilometer 0. In other words, all roads lead to Rizal Park.





It was around here that the weather turned against us and we decided to change course and head to Ocean Park.

Various fish:



































We also saw this cruise ship in port:



Panorama attempt:




Jellyfish room:











And some poison dart frogs to finish things off









I've got some more pics from another trip I'll have up later today or tomorrow. It's a little after 3pm as I'm posting this. Enjoy!

That's a Nikon D750 for ya. 24-120 f/4 lens, aperture was usually f/4 or f/5.6

ISO was mostly 12,800. Kinda dark in there. Even still, a lot of the shutters were at 1/125 or 1/60. A few were even slower.

No flash allowed. Definitely not an on camera flash in any case.

They never said constant light was prohibited. I may have used my phone light to help with some of these.