Monday, August 04, 2008

Vancouver Aquarium : Morning Tour

The Aquarium is situated inside Stanley Park itself, accessible via walking or car. we got there round 10AM and really saw the crowds grow as the day went past lunch. its extremely popular and having the kids summer holidays on at the same time kinda fills the place up real quickly. smallish in size, but similar in theme and scope to Sydney's the Aquarium is basically 3 zones. outer pools and marine life, arctic mammals. inner frog and swamp zone. freshwater basin and rainforest leading to ocean climates.

I found it to be great, especially the regions featuring sections on the local marine environments from the local bays. each one fully populated by heaps of fish and marine life in each tank, beautifully designed and maintained giving a great glimpse into what we don't see from above. i kinda feel a strong connection to these sorts of things generally because of living on the coast all my life and enjoying fishing as a past time. you get to respect what many just pass over. its also nice to feel that, seeing the sharks and dolphins etc in the tanks, i can stick my hand up and say ... you know what, ive feed, caught, released and watch those out in the wild, the real world.











2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Magic photo's.......

SHAUN FOX said...

yeh it was a really cool place, much more along the lines of Sydneys aquarium, its split into sections ala, rainforest, artic, swamp wetlands, and oceans. kinda small but cool. but we went at the wrong time and everyone had the same idea as us on the first fine morning in a while .. every man and his dog was down there. i ended up trekking round the edge of the seawall and through Stanley Park.

S.