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2018/11/30 Waikiki Aquarium

π 2018-11-30 01:01 in Aquariums

Ok, the Waikiki Aquarium does not warrant a special trip to go visit, but if you are already in the area and have 60 to 90mn to kill, it's still a fun visit. A few pictures below:

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2018/11/28 Ohahu's Sea Life Park

π 2018-11-28 01:01 in Aquariums

After diving nearby, it made sense to go check out Sea Life Park. It's a fairly small Sea World, but still fun to visit for 2 to 3h depending on how many shows/talks you go to. The actual aquarium bit is kind of small, though. The birds added some good amusement.

nice background

There were a couple of shows, one with Sea Lions and one with dolpins:

This is the 2nd aquarium we go to that has a nice little birdie collection. Those were very friendly and hungry :)

first one

then more :)

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2018/10/18 Denver Aquarium

π 2018-10-18 01:01 in Aquariums

While in Denver, I had a look at the aquarium that is open late in the evening, and it was a decent size, worth almost 2H:

They had a beautiful octopus that was quite active when I visited:

so sad I didn't get to touch its suckers :)

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2018/05/26 Manila Ocean Park

π 2018-05-26 01:01 in Aquariums, Philippines

Ocean Park was 5mn from our hotel, so we went to check it out. It was fun to spend a few hours there in given we had extra time:

they had little birdies and they were hungry :)

weirdest flat turtle I had ever seen

foot spa

To ened td the evening, they had a light show:

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2017/10/30 Sealife Sunshine Coast

π 2017-10-30 01:01 in Aquariums, Australia

While visiting the Sunshine Coast, we did a quick stop at Sealife there. I didn't expect much, and we were through it in just around 1H, but it was still worth a quick visit:

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2017/01/03 Paris Aquarium

π 2017-01-03 01:01 in Aquariums

While in Paris, just a few minutes from the Eiffel tower, there is now an aquarium. Actually it's been around for 10 years now, but honestly I had never heard of it. It's been dug into the ground where there was nothing before, so honestly I didn't expect much, and to be honest it wasn't much, but eh, it's still an aquarium, worth about 1h or so.
The highlight was actually the touch pool at the end with big carps that were happy to come brush towards your hands, I even had several that tasted my hand with their mouth. Funny how curious they were, maybe they were hoping for food.

small sharks

slipper lobster

leopard shark?

shark egg

and the carps at the end (no, they weren't magikarp, but they were friendly :)

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2016/08/25 Toronto's Ripley's Aquarium of Canada

π 2016-08-25 01:01 in Aquariums

While in Torronto, and as a torrential rain had started to fall, it was a good time to end our day after museums had closed anyway, in the Ripley Aquarium that was open extended hours.

While it's by no means a world top aquarium, it's actually fairly good, and it was nice go when it wasn't crowded:

nice shark-eu :)

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2016/07/24 Miyajima Aquarium

π 2016-07-24 01:01 in Aquariums, Japan2016

While in Miyajima, we went to visit their small aquarium there. It actually wasn't bad in content, the highlight was by far the spitting fish that could target bugs on a board up in the air and with a precise single water spit, use that small water jet to hit the bugs, make them fall in the water, and hit them:

Watch the video to see the water jets:

The very big lowlight was how small the very small tanks that many of the animals were in. That really looked wrong. Those poor mammals, part of the whale family, were in a super small tank where they could just swing around aimlessly. Sadly it's not the only such aquarium in Japan, the whale shark in Oaska also doesn't belong in a tank that small :(

Some other random pictures:

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2016/07/17 Kyoto Aquarium

π 2016-07-17 01:01 in Aquariums, Japan2016

I had a quick look at the Kyoto Aquarium because it was indoors and had AC, but to be fair (and as expected), it was nothing to write home about, including the underwhelming and loud dolphin show. Still, a few pictures:

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2016/05/09 Seoul Coex Aquarium

π 2016-05-09 01:01 in Aquariums, Southkorea2016

While going around Seoul on a Monday, as all the museums were closed, we were in Gangnam (south of river) after visiting the Google office, and I noticed that there was an aquarium nearby, so I thought we'd go visit it. By the time we found it deep inside a shopping mall, my expectations were way down. I expected a crappy little aquarium and figured we'd had just been robbed of $22 each for the entrance fee.
Turns out, I was very wrong, and happy to be so. Not only was it of a very decent size (all underground in a mall), but it had a fair amount of fish we had not seen before, making the visit actually interesting instead of "yet another aquarium". Thankfully the number of screaming kids was also very low on a monday afternoon :)