Rainy Day...

Yesterday was a rainy day. But it was still warm. Only had to put my sweater on a couple of times. We took a bus down to Kelly Tarlton's Underwater Park in the morning. It was really cool. It is an aquarium that was made in the old sewage system. Sounds gross but apparently they cleaned it out really good and made giant aquariums out of them.

When you first walk in you can look through a couple of port holes into the penguin exhibit. They have a simulated environment that they keep the penguins in. They were molting so some of them were kind of ugly. Ha ha!

Further down is the Stingray tank. These animals were huge! We got to see feeding time and they were hungry. They would rub up against the person with the food and almost knock them over. The feeders had to stuff the food into their mouths. They would also come up near the edge of the tank and stick themselves out of the water a little bit. I got to touch one. It was really slimy.

The next exhibit was a couple of tunnels in which the aquarium ran up and around you. In these aquariums were sharks and some more stingrays.

Ahead was more tanks and aquariums full of different fish, eels, and sea horses! We saw nemo's and dori's of course. I liked the sea horses the best.

They also had on display the largest squid ever caught in New Zealand. He was kinda ugly though.

After we had our fun there we walked down to Mission Bay again since it was so close. Just a 10 minute walk. They had a beach rave going on there so we went to check it out. Lots of drunk people though. They had beer and wine on the beach! Imagine trying that at Jarvis! I don't think it would fly.

It was kind of rainy and not very warm so we wandered around and took some pictures. Then we headed to Movenport to get some icecream. Apparently Hokey Pokey icecream is pretty famous here. Necha got that icecream but I got caramelita. All around it was pretty good.