Sydney Aquarium

The Sydney Aquarium has some of the same benefits of the Wildlife World-- location, convenience, air conditioning-- so it was a good place to hole up when we first moved here. As expected Ryan got a huge kick out of it, though I wasn't far down the excitement scale.

The loggerhead sea turtle

This boy was in the big tank with numerous fish, sharks, manta rays, and others. But he holds his own. Big old boy.









This smaller tank was no doubt organized to elicit screeches from every child from ages two to eight. Clownfish and friends: "NEEEMO!"















When you run into Ryan, and she goes on about dugongs, this is what she is talking about. The southern world's relative to the manatee. I think he smiled for this photo.
















The cuttlefish. I wrote a middle school paper on mollusks (very enthralling read, I am sure) and became a big fan of the octopus, and to a lesser extent, the squid. I intentionally skipped over their other relative, the cuttlefish, since there wasn't much in the encyclopedia about them. Since then I have learned some incredible stuff about them. The abilities of the smaller ones to dupe the larger ones is, well, inspiring. It throws off the survival of the physically fittest, but maybe they are advancing in other ways faster.

Jellyfish. Just a photo that came out nicely. I think the middle one of these posed, as well.

No, these are not the poisonous fellas found up near the Great Barrier Reef.