Moving Pictures

Just a quick post with some images from Melbourne Aquarium over the weekend.  Hope you can see the slideshow.  I need to rush to be in time for my daughter’s appointment with the surgeon.

Shark Feed at the Melbourne Aquarium

We took a trip to the aquarium again.  With the weather turning a bit cooler, indoor activities are great.  (Everyone in the house has the sniffles.)  My daughter and I met up with a friend and her little boy at the train station.  We made it to the aquarium in time for feeding time in the shark pool.

Lots of people were in the area to listen to the presenter and watch the feeding.  My daughter had sneaked through to stand right up front against the glass.

The stingrays were all over the place, really keen to get as much food as they could.

The sharks got fed in the second round (after the stingrays).  The divers were really careful for their fingers!

 

I love the blue light in that room from the water.  It really makes you feel like you are close to the creatures in the water.

Moms, kids and school holidays

School only starts again in February, so the kids are already showing signs of cabin fever.  Since we have a yearly pass for the Melbourne Aquarium, I decided we should take a train trip in to the city. 

After drowning my sorrows over the broken lens in a huge box of chocolate, I decided to just have fun with the photography and focus on getting the shot, not worrying about graininess and ISO.  (My slower lens required me to shoot at 1600 ISO).

We started with the penguins again.  They swim so enormously fast! 

 

My daughter loves the seahorses.  This one was really swimming upside down.

We rushed through the  next area, since the kids wanted to get to the interactive display.  We did stop to look at some of the fish and frogs though.  The last frog is quite venomous: the poison arrow frog.

  The kids then took some time to touch the creatures in the interactive display.

Then we got to the jellyfish.  The lighting in there was great!  The kids loved how their white clothes lit up under the lights.

The jellyfish are lit with different kinds of light to show their different properties.

  These babies are about the size of my fingernail.

This giant crab looked like it was posing!  Couldn’t resist getting a shot.

The day ended up being enormous fun, in both the photography and time with the kids.

The octopus was awake!

Since it is school holidays, I decided to take the kids to the aquarium again, especially since I had been promising a while.  The penguins were nesting, some asleep.

The crabs were big and fascinating to the boys.

The underwater ferns were beautiful under the magnifying glass.

The shark feeding was really entertaining, as always.

But the best was, that after multiple visits, the octopus was actually active for the first time.

Taking granddad to the aquarium

My father in law is here for a short visit.  On Tuesday we took him to the aquarium to see the fishies!  I really do love the colours in the different tanks.

      
   

These fish are so beautiful, yet so poisonous.

     

My daughter really loves visiting, from the rock pools where you can touch the creatures

   

to the shark area where fish swim over you…