Showing posts with label fish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fish. Show all posts

Wednesday, 8 April 2020

Covid countdown - Bobbin Head's crabs and fishes

Our daily legal 'exercise excursions' continue, some possibly more legal than others. (Hard to know really how an over-zealous police officer might choose to interpret the rules.)

Today it was Bobbin Head, with its wide open picnic spaces and its cordoned-off benches and shelters. Ar least the national park is open. Some aren't.



We bought legal takeaway coffees, drank them (legally? - not sure) in the car, and did a legal exercise stroll along the marina boardwalk, with its hungry-for-tourist-food-scraps fish.









On then to the mangrove boardwalk for another  stroll among the brightly coloured mangrove crabs.


Sunday, 16 September 2018

Cairns' new aquarium


Cairns has a new aquarium, and it's quite the place. It's well worth the somewhat substantial entry fee, what with several hours worth of spectacular exhibits swimming around and above you.
























All the usual suspects of course. Sharks, crocodiles, snakes, frogs, colourful crustaceans, incredibly colourful reef fish galore. And some of the tanks are as big as they come.







 


The chap in the first video below rather took my fancy.

And then there are the sharks and the amazing pulsating jellyfish: