Sea Life Aquarium

Next up was the sea life aquarium, right next door. Convenient.

Just like the zoo, the aquarium was a bunch of walkways. Up down and all around. The difference in this attraction were the tons and tons of kids. So. Many. Kids.

Our favorite animals were the sharks and penguins.

After you enter, and make your way through some walkways, you see some aquariums.

There were starfish, eel, anemone, clownfish and a variety of other fish. The eel is creepy looking. The anemone were beautiful. I really hope we see some more like it in these Australian waters. We won't make it up to the great barrier reef but I've read of some nice spots that are on this coast.

We saw some seahorses, epaulette sharks, wrasse, triggerfish, surgeonfish, and a starry puffer. The puffer was big. It appeared to have some teeth and it just wandered about the aquarium. He looked uncomfortable in my opinion. Haha

We saw a turtle with the longest neck I've ever seen . It did not match its body. We saw lungfish. The lungfish can breathe through their gills and they can take in air from above.

We saw some coral lit up under some UV lights. Beautiful how they fluoresce.

There was an area where you wash your hands and you can touch some coral and starfish and sea cucumber. We did, of course.

We saw slipper lobster, more wrasse, clownfish, anemone, cuttlefish, scorpion fish, hula fish, and a lionfish. We also saw butterfly fish , damsels, and snail,

We walked through some tunnels and saw a barramundi. We also saw bamboo shark. We saw one bamboo shark eating another bamboo shark. We thought maybe they were playing but the other shark was not moving. Perhaps that's what they do. I don't know.

We saw a dugong. What a wild creature. The staff was playing with it. They would drop this piece of equipment at the bottom of their cage and it would retrieve it for them. They eat a lot of lettuce.

We walked through even more tunnels and saw rays, smaller, grey nurse sharks and a wobbegong. The grey nurse sharks looked mean but I'm sure they are not.

We then went to ride this little water boat ride where we went through the penguin exhibit. It was cold but it felt good with all the walking we had done. The ride was really short. Then we walked out of the ride and saw the penguins even more close up. One was walking around but mostly they were just standing there or laying on rocks and what appeared to be eggs. They had one penguin swimming around by itself. Wonder what he did to get free time or a time out.

We walked into this room with mirrors which disoriented me at first. They had jellyfish in tubes. They were lit up in different colors: pink, green, orange.

We walked through more tunnels where we saw black tip reef sharks similar to what we saw in Tahiti. We also saw more rays and a turtle. There was one ray that was gigantic. Much much bigger than we saw in Tahiti.

We closed out our aquarium visit by ordering food and a drink.. I got banana bread with chocolate chunks. Erik got a ham and cheese croissant. We also got mango and raspberry slushie. Yum.

The aquarium was a great visit. I also recommend this. I think all of the kids running around had both of us on edge. We needed to get away from them haha..

The only kids I want around are my own. Goodness, I wish my kids were here for the zoo and aquarium. They would have loved it..Read more