Stanley Park Vancouver Aquarium

Finally, a fun day after all the days of bad luck.

Went down to Stanley Park with Myung Sun. We actually didn't walk around Stanley Park much, but rather, we went down to the Vancouver Aquarium. The Vancouver Aquarium was so much nicer than the lousy Underwater World in Sentosa. They have tropical fishes, Amazon fishes, local fishes etc. They had a whole Amazon forest exhibit area. They had touch pools, to touch stuff like starfish, sea cucumber and what have you. They have so many different kinds of fish on display, it's more like a mini-zoo than an aquarium!

http://www.vanaqua.org

I think my two favourite exhibitions are the sea otters and the beluga whales. You often see sea otters lying on their backs in the water in cartoons and pictures? Well... I got to see that in real life! And it was so cute... Lying on its back floating in the water like it's just lazing around.

The Beluga Whales are very cute too. They actually look more like dolphins than whales, because they are white in colour. And they were trained for shows, much like the dolphin shows. They are actually artic whales, i.e. they live in the artic, thus the colour. And because they live in the artic, they had lots of blubber. Fats don't look good on humans, but the whales looked so cute with all their blubber!!! There's a certain lump on their heads they can move at will. During the show, they actually showed them moving that lump of blubber at will. So cute!!! Anyone want to view the live cam on the Beluga whales?


http://www.vanaqua.org/belugacam/index.html