Month completed: January 2008

Since opening a few years ago, I have always wanted to go to the Melbourne Aquarium, but never got there.

For Christmas, my brother gave me and Nat a gift voucher to go, so yesterday we went.

The aquarium was good - there were plenty of displays and heaps of information, and I would definitely recommend a visit if you have a day spare (I would also recommend booking ahead if you want to do the glass bottom boat tour - we didn’t, and it was all booked out when we tried to book in on the day).

If you want to see a really great aquarium though, visit the Aquarium of Western Australia, next time you are in Perth. The WA aquarium has a better underwater tank, bigger sharks and turtles (the turtles are my favourite), and a seal display, and is overall just a better aquarium.

But that takes nothing away from our Aquarium. One recommendation - don’t go during the school holidays, or you will be spending half your time dodging a thousand-strong army of prams and ankle-biters.*

Here’s me sticking my head out of a bubble in one of the tanks.

* We would have missed overhearing a funny line if we didn’t go during school holidays though.

A mum and her son were looking at a lobster in a tank. The mum said ‘yum’. The son said ‘why do you keep saying ‘yum’ all the time?’. She didn’t reply. I was quite amused.