Aquarium
March 26, 2003
Seeing how this will be one of the last, full weekends that I will see Eri for awhile, we went for one of our complete day adventures. She starts her job in April and she’ll have a normal Monday to Friday, 9 to 5 job while I am still stuck with my fucked up schedule. The best case scenario will be my request gets approved for May and I’ll be working Sunday to Thursday, finishing mostly at 3pm
We decided to go to the Osaka Aquarium today because I’ve never been there and some people told me it’s kinda fun. Well, it was fun. We took a scenic train line that went through a part of town I’ve never been in. The aquarium sits on the harbour and the air in that nook of the city is much fresher and has that nice sea salt smell. The aquarium itself knocks the pants off the Vancouver one. First you go up an escalator and the entire tour is over 500m long. You wind down these paths all the while fish are swimming beside you. The lighting is fabulous. Most of the tanks have that nice UV light that make the colors illuminate moreso than in nature.
There were fish there that I’ve only seen on the Discovery Channel. Their theme is the Ring of Fire and as you wind down through the place, you see signs of where these fish came from - all from places on the Ring of Fire. The coolest things I saw today was a 4m long whale shark (the sucker grows up to 12m long), an ocean sun fish (looks like a tire with fins on top and bottom), some dolphins, and GIANT SPIDER CRABS. Those crabs stood probably two feet high - the body was the size of a watermelon and the legs when stretched out probably were 3 feet long (possibly more). I took tonnes of pictures and filled up an 8mb memory card and had to resort to my phone for the spillover. I wish I could just post every picture I’ve ever taken online - maybe one of these days I will
But for now, enjoy some pictures from the aquarium’s webpage. Sorry Dennis for not replying when you messaged. I was being mesmerized by the ocean sun fish’s rhythmic waving of its top and bottom fins.
