David "working" from home

Yesterday, David spent the day at home with me! That meant that we were able to go explore. Unfortunately, the weather was not the greatest. We decided to go to OceanWorld, which is an aquarium in Manly. On our way to OceanWorld, we found a funny sign. It's hard to see here, but Manly was commemorating the landing of the first white man.

OceanWorld looks kind of small from afar, and I was definitely hesitant about going.


But it ended up having some amazing kinds of fish. First, there were lots of shark teeth displays.


The first floor had many tanks with different fish in each one. Here was a huge starfish on the wall. It reminded me of the one in Finding Nemo who was always on the wall.

Some cuttlefish hung out in this tank. They were very interesting looking creatures since they didn't have any real fins like the other fish.


This was the most beautiful fish that we had ever seen. It's called a lion fish.



We found Nemo! He was hiding in the anemone as always.



They had a touching tank, where you could reach your hands in and touch things. There was no one monitering it and I was waiting for a little kid to touch the sea urchins and scream.


On the bottom level, there was a tank that had a tunnel going through it so you could watch the fish swim above you from one side to the other. Lots of sharks in the tank.


Along the sides, there were descriptions of what was in the tank. Here was a funny type of fish.


In this tank, there is an actual fish in it....


It's called the stone fish. He is made to look like the rocks in the area and he barely moves.


On the top level, there is a reptile exhibit.


We stayed for a dangerous exhibit show and was able to see some poisonous snakes and spiders. We were even able to touch a small salt walter crocodile!




After OceanWorld, Nicole ended up joining us in Manly. After lounging around doing nothing for a couple of hours, we took a walk to see where the next northern beach was. After a hike, we found it, but I forgot my camera. In other news, we're definitely going to have a non-relative visitors. Steph has bought her tickets to come in March and Robin will also be coming during the time of her visit!