second day in sydney: sydney aquarium :)

my next activity for the day, after i got back from sydney olympic park, was to walk over to darling harbor and go to the sydney aquarium there.  it was a good rainy day activity (even though i had already planned to go), and i think every other school and family in sydney thought it was a good rainy day activity too!  it was still so fun!

the first exhibit was PLATYPUS!  ooooh yaaaaaaayyyy!!!  i was so so excited!!

by the way platypus is the same singular and plural, like sheep.  who knew.

next, i saw some more little penguins, like i saw at phillips island!

except these were behind glass..
then, some eels...  they are weird...
really weird...
sea urchins..

aand one of my favorites, the sea anemone with all the little nemos swimming around.  i didn't know they actually lived in the anemone.  i thought that was just part of the movie.  how cool!

and a big starfish stuck to the glass..
"many of nemo's friends live in our great barrier reef oceanarium, have you found them?"

this poster cracked me up because the first thing i thought of when we went to sydney the first time was "this is nemo's home!"  and then when i was in the aquarium, before i saw this poster, i was thinking about which ones were in nemo, ha!

neat purple and blue starfish..
and now, into the big walkthrough tank.  lots of sharks...

and big stingrays..

they look at me and say "yummy to my tummy"

and a huuuge manta ray or something like that...

and a sea turtle...hey, that's in nemo too!...

the end.  after the aquarium i headed back to the airport and had a lovely flight home.   oh how i love sydney. :)