Elias had recommended that we should visit the tunnel aquarium at the Dubai Mall. This is a great whopping two story aquarium that anyone in the mall can walk past, from about three metres back. If you pay to go in, you can walk right next to the glass, and then go through a glass tunnel (a strong one I hope) so that you have the fish on both sides of you and also above you.
Walking under a shark.
You could elect, and presumably pay, to go into a cage and be lowered down into the aquarium. Unfortunately, we hadn’t brought our togs.
In a separate exhibition were some piranhas. A sign said “Do not place your hand in the exhibit.”
Some dragon fish, related to sea horses.
“Garden eels live in the sandy ocean desert. From a distance, they resemble a field of swaying seagrass, but when larger animals approach, the ‘grass’ miraculously disappears. When garden eels are extended from their burrows, they will all move their bodies and mouths to face the moving current at the same time, to capture floating zooplankton.”
They looked so cute!
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