And this is the main sign.
The Ocean Park Aquarium is famous for its shark-feeding. I'm sure you can tell from the sign on top. They have a large pool where several sharks are free to swim about. They also have a full-fledged restaurant where we decided to have lunch. Not the cheapest of restaurants, but the food was quite nice. And guess what, they don't serve sharks there! :P
A photo of the food. They did well in making the dish look pretty.
Shark-feeding at the shark pool.
Their idea of shark-feeding was to hang a dead fish into the water (from a safe distance), and allow the sharks to tear it to pieces. No humans were harmed in the process of feeding. When we got there the fish was already torn to pieces. You can probably tell from the picture above. But despite the fish being in bad shape the sharks still went for it anyway.
One of the sharks swimming by.
After the shark-feeding we explored the other parts of the aquarium. It wasn't a big place, but we had a very competent and humorous tour guide which made the visit worth our while. Here are a few pics of the sea life we saw.
The notorious stone fish. One sting and you're history.
This turtle actually tried to bite our tour guide's finger off. I got a good shot of this.
Moray eel. Also dangerous because its bite packs a bacteria bomb that will give you a nasty infection.
Now let's move on to a few residents of the aquarium who have no intention to poison you/remove your finger/force you to amputate your arm because of an infection.
The common squid. Found all over Australia and very delicious!
Clownfish and sea anemone. You probably call the Clownfish "Nemo". I don't have that habit.
Lion Fish. Again not so friendly. They're poisonous.
So that's my short update about the aquarium. I will continue to finish the Australian story here before I move to any entries about Penang. Hopefully I blog fast enough.
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