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After last week's kind of disappointing visit to the zoo, we decided to try again to prove that reality is better than a wildlife documentary (but is it?), this time at the London Aquarium (which is apparently called 'Sealife' now? exclamation point and jazz hands optional, I guess.)
It's pricy (twice as much as the zoo, infinitely as much as watching an old David Attenborough DVD. I should stop pushing that, shouldn't I?). But! We really enjoyed it. It was immersive fun (credit for that pun of the day goes to PA) - perhaps because it's easier to imagine the fish less aware of their tanks, perhaps because the slightly shonky set dressing (under the sea wrecks! mayan ruins! fake arctic!) spoke to the part of me that thinks that the Crystal Maze was bloody brilliant.
It's well set up for kids Mister G's age too, with a lot of the tanks at floor level and those that are higher have handy ledges on which to prop kids up. Although he required a lot of coaxing to walk over the glass floored corridor over the shark tank near the entrance, G himself had a whale (punny) of a time pointing at all the fish and dipping his hands in the ray tank.
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| // friendly rays // |
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| gripping PA's wrist // reflection // penguin bum |
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Aquarium's are a lot less depressing than zoos, I think because fish are, for the most part, a lot dumber than mammals.
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