VH and I had a lovely afternoon today at the London Sea Life Aquarium, which has recently been refurbished. There were all kinds of fish and amphibians, the good, the bad and the ugly (although it would have been nice if there had been some other animals in the aquarium, like penguins, otters or polar bears). The above photo shows one of their new exhibitions, with a giant skeleton of a blue whale. The good sea life we saw included the turtles, and 'Nemo' and 'Dory' fish (Clown fish, and Blue Tang fish). By the way, you will have to excuse the photography here; it is incredibly difficult to take photos of fast-moving fish behind glass and water, especially when you are not able to use flash photography.
The 'bad' fish we saw included piranhas (which actually didn't look that scary) and several varieties of sharks. We were able to walk over the top of the glass shark aquarium (taking 'the shark walk'), and look down on them which was quite exciting.
Fish are quite weird creatures, and we saw many strange and even 'ugly' types of fish, including stonefish (not pictured) and catfish.
As you exit the sealife centre, you enter into McDonalds where you are able to purchase fish-fingers if you wish. We didn't go there, but to a nicer restaurant on the Southbank (Giraffe) where both VH and I ate vegetarian.
I wonder what fish live out there in the nearby Thames?
ReplyDeletethanx for the pix - I enjoyed them.
Whoa... so cool! I love all things that live under the sea... how massive was that skeleton??
ReplyDeleteFrankofile - There was a Thames section, but it was comparatively boring and we didn't spend much time in it. I only remember the carp.
ReplyDeleteShop Girl - It was huge! It made the hammerhead sharks that were swimming around it look tiny.