![]() ![]() If anyone has questions about the program, do drop them here, I’ll be happy to answer what I know :) It’s not the cheapest thing to do, but it’s a pretty educational one and definitely a unique experience sleeping so up close and personal with the fish. I would have liked to spend more time exploring the aquarium, whether through guided tour or on my own, and I would have loved to see more back-of-house experiences like the manta feeding, because you can’t experience that on your own. ![]() I’ll be quite candid and admit that I might be a little bit past the whole ‘school camp’ experience, and I think they could do quite a lot of interesting things if they considered catering some of the programme to the adults who participate, or had different groups for them separate from the kids. Sea dream aquarium full#We then headed off to one of their back-of-house areas, which houses the top of main Open Ocean Habitat tank – no pictures allowed unfortunately, but we got to watch them feed plankton to the manta rays, which basically involves them holding a small bucket full of plankton out on a long pole, and pouring it down the manta’s mouth when it swims up very quickly.Īll in all, I had a pretty awesome time. We found ourselves in Adventure Cove, which is a part of the whole Marine Life Area, and had breakfast in one of its eating places. This dolphin on the left came down to check us out through the glassĪfter that we grabbed our bags and were herded up by their internal fish lift which is used to transport animals, and smells to high hell of fishiness. We also got to see the dolphin enclosure, which was dark the night before. We took a morning walk through the aquarium to wake up, which was nice. The next morning, we woke up bright and early at 7am, and waking up to fish is a pretty nice thing to do. This is what my view was like as I closed my eyes that night, it was pretty magical (and also very cold, I had track pants, a windbreaker, a scarf and a blanket and I was still so, so, so cold) Also lots of sharks – a speedy leopard shark, a couple of guitar sharks and a shark that turned out to be a ray (which we just called ray shark) – to be fair there are lots of convenient electronic touch screens in the area which you can use to ID the fish, but just making up names for them is quite fun (we do that a lot while diving, really) The other rays, both large roundish ones that rippled when they swam or smaller ones that flapped like little birds, and a whole school of little cow-nosed ones. The manta rays are the highlight of course, and there were three of them who spent their night following each other around. ![]() Me and P stayed up talking and staring at fish till at least midnight – something about it is quite hypnotizing. We picked a spot to the right of the main panel, a place where our guide told us you could see a fish vortex form around the only light source left on when all the lights were turned off. ![]()
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