It's a 3 minute walk, you can't miss it!

With Sydney Adventure coupons to use, we thought it would be a perfect day to visit Manly Sea Life, which was just a small version of the Sydney Aquarium. This was the perfect place to go since we both wanted a relax day plus it was cloudy outside, so going to the Sydney Eye was a definite no for the day. We got ready and headed out the door, only to go get a bus pass since we have been using them like crazy! We then headed to the bus stop where we did our normal thing: watch every bus except for the bus that we need stop in front of us. It seems that this is a never ending battle with the Sydney buses  Our correct bus finally arrived and soon we were off the Manly Sea Life. When we arrived, instead of looking around, we decided to just go to the information desk to ask where the aquarium was. Turns out it was just to our left, and if we would have literally just turned our heads slightly, we would have seen it. Oh well! We walked over to this extremely small building, and I think we both were thinking the same thing – how could an aquarium type of thing fit in here? Well, we both can say that it was a lot bigger on the inside than on the outside since it had three floors! We stayed on the first floor for a little bit, looking at all the different types of fish.

The most venomous fish next to the stone fish!

First ever unicorn fish!

 

After we watched all of the fish do what they do best – swim – we went down two floors to check out the underwater tunnel. It was pretty much like the Sydney Aquarium, but maybe just a little smaller. Yet, they had animals which we had both never seen before… sea turtles!

Also well as the creepiest fish we have ever seen, Cuttle fish.

They were all rescue turtles, some which would be released back into the wild and some that would live the rest of their life at the aquarium. Our tour started promptly at 3 o’ clock and only lasted about 15 minutes, which was kind of disappointing. Our tour guide showed us all of the different animals that they have there, including the stingrays which were the size of a queen size mattress! She also told us about the sea turtles and why some would have to stay at the aquarium. One turtle named Myrtle, had gotten her shell broken. Manly Sea Life Crew was able to keep her shell back together so she could swim again, but during this process her shell filled with air so when she went to swim again, all the air moved to the back of her shell making her butt sit straight in the air. Luckily, they made a belt that balanced Myrtle out so she could swim normally. For this reason though, she will not be able to be released into the wild since the belt could come off or get caught on something. After we left the underwater tunnel, we noticed on our timetable sheet that the Manly crew would be feeding the little penguins, and this was a must see! We made our way to the third floor where the penguins were and surprisingly, those little penguins were extremely loud! They are actually the loudest penguins of the penguin family! The noise became even worse when the food came out! We watched them feed the penguins and soon they were all swimming again, making the noise levels much more bearable. We headed back to the first floor since another feeding was taking place at 3:30. The lady started feeding the fish, saying that they would probably go crazy, but nothing happened. Lauren and I came to a conclusion that all of these fish were lazy! Shortly after, we decided that we had seen everything that Manly Sea Life had to offer, so we headed to the main strip to browse a couple stores. We came across a store that had Mike ‘n Ikes for a dollar, so you know Lauren couldn’t pass on the deal. With no other stores that looked too interesting, we decided to head back since I had another paper that was due on Thursday. We arrived home, ate dinner, and relaxed while I wrote my paper.