Declan's recount:
On Friday 10th of June, we went for a whole school excursion to the Melbourne Aquarium. We left at the front of the school at 8:00am and travelled on a 24-seater bus. On the way we had a quick toilet break at Wallan. [and the teachers had a coffee]: When we got to the aquarium, we got off the bus and had something to eat, then we went to the entrance to meet our tour guide Simon. When we got in Simon took us to a place to put our bags. Then, when we walked out, THERE WERE PENGUINS, and they were adorable, but sadly we could not stay to see them. Oh, so sad. Anyway, we then went to see some sea jellies. Your probably wondering “what are sea jellies?” Well sea jellies are jelly fish, just called a different name and there is a reason. Some people call them sea jellies because sea jellies [also known as jelly fish] are not fish. I can tell you why, they have no blood and no brain. So practically they are just flouting blobs. Anyway, we had to use uv lights to see some of the sea jellies though. After that we went to see some sharks, stingrays and different types of fish in one huge tank. I don’t know why the sharks didn’t eat the fish because sharks do eat fish, don’t they? When I was looking at a stingray it put it stomach on the glass, IT HAD HUGE LIPSSSS!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! And also, we saw a few swordfish. We then went to see these really cute turtles called flatback turtle, or something but I can’t remember. We also saw some small seahorses, sea dragons and sea turtles. We then walked up a giant ramp to see a giant crocodile, I mean he was massive! His name was -Pinjella, or something but I’m not sure. We were standing on a big piece of thick plastic. After we saw the giant croc, we went into a theatre and watched like ten minutes of ice age. Under the seats were little hoses that blew air on our ankles, and at one point, one of the pipes whipped my ankle and it really hurt. ]: Then we went back out to the penguins. This time we got to stay for a while and look at the cute fuzzy things. Then we had to go. We had lunch outside of the aquarium. It was really fun spending the day at the aquarium. My favourite part was when we saw the crocodile. Because of the size of the freakish thing. |
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