Saturday, November 21, 2009

Sydney Aquarium

We visited the Sydney Aquarium this trip, which is touted to be one of the best in the world. It was a very hot day so we were pleased to spend a bit of time in the air conditioned building.

The aquarium has two very significant viewing areas where the animals swim over and around you. They are very keen on their Dugongs down here (a.k.a. Manatees), which were fun to watch.

The amazing thing about the viewing areas is that the animals behind the glass actually appear 25% smaller than they really are, which means this turtle is humongous. Did you know that turtles will wedge themselves under rocks to sleep, they may appear to be stuck, but they are really just sleeping.

The underbelly of a sting ray is really neat, but only because you don't get to see it very often.

The children loved seeing Nemo and Dori. It seems like someone in Sydney caught them after all.

The platypus is by far one of the most fascinating animals in all of Australia (which is saying a lot, because the country has a lot of amazing animals!)

Our children loved the Aquarium. It was truly awesome.

1 comment:

Sarah said...

But no one fell in the water - a trip is only complete when one of the kids falls into the water:)