4 June 10 - Ocean Park

By Lou: One drizzly day I thought, why don't we go for a drive somewhere warm and fork out lots of money for the privilege? So we headed off to Ocean Park, an aquarium just out of Denham. Unfortunately it wasn't entirely an indoors aquarium but it turned out to be really interesting and informative. We were taken on a guided tour of about 6 pools, starting from a nursery through to the shark pool. Learnt about lots of beasties like sea snakes, stonefish and tiger fish. Although the shark was half hearted about eating the bait, given they're fed every tour, it was close enough to turn me off surfing.







Talk about nasties...

I quite enjoyed watching and learning a little about clown fish (Nemos). In one tank we watched a little clown fish race over to the over side of the tank when a blob of food was dropped in, grabbing it in the face of much bigger fish, and then taking it back to its anenome. Gutsy little thing. They have a symbiotic relationship and in return for a large healthy home the clown fish makes sure his anenome is fed well.

By Craig: Lou had me interested just mentioning 'Sharks' & given half a chance I think Sam would swim with them! Wondering why a piece of weedy rock was sitting alone in a tank had me for a second until it moved and I realised it was a Stone Fish. Bloody scary to think we could walk past or on these things in the water.