An Unique and Special One

Sunday, March 28, 2010 @ 9:33 PM

27 March 2010

This post gonna long so yeah... Be prepared! It's going to be an exciting post! That night, i went to Sentosa Underwater World to stay over at their aquarium. The picture below is the itinerary of the whole programme...

Itinerary of the Programme

Firstly, TADA! Here we are at the Underwater World!

Underwater World Entrance!

A view of the signage from the EX-monorail station

Before we get in, we are supposed to put a tag on our hand...

This is the touch pool where you can touch LIVE sea creatures like Bamboo shark, Stingray, Starfish and many more....

Touch-pool!

Starfish...

Then we come to the Seadragons! There's 2 kinds of Seahorse! One is the weedy Seadragon and the leafy Seadragon... if i'm not wrong. Hmm... the picture of the Seadragons will be hard to see as flash cannot be used. So Yeah...

Weedy Seadragon!

Leafy Seadragon!

Then after that we went to see the Crab's family! Heard from the guide that this crab (Thunder Crab) had its name from a legend where people believed that this crab will only released its claws once there's thunder.

Thunder Crab!

Coconut Crab! It's armour is as hard as it is able to open a coconout.

Decorative Crab?

The Japanese Giant Spider Crab... The gender is differentiate by its claws.

World's largest Crab! It could grow up to 3 Metres tall.

A picture of my cousins and me

After that we came into the Viewing area of the underwater world. We saw sharks.

Nurse Shark!

Let's us meer Gracie the Dugong. She is 12 years old this year. She was rescued while being caught in a dift net. Sadly, her mother died while protecting her and she was sent to Sentosa.

It's her feeding time.

Yums~

Pararoh Cuttlefish... Do you know small male Cuttlefish 'cross-dress' as females for quick mating. OMG...

Chambered Nautilus... they swim about by buoyancy.

Giant Deep Sea Isopod (Top)

(Back)

After that, we proceed to see the jellyfish. There's 2 types of jellyfish. Forgotten their names.

Jelly-Fishes!

Cleverest Octopus as it can open a jar and solves puzzles and mazes. Cool right? It can squeeze through a hole of 5cm.

Next up is the Sea Angel. It's name is deprived from its behaviour... as it will follow the divers whenever they swim. They can only be found in very cold places like the Antartica.

Sea Angel!

After that, we went to the Living fossil and we saw lots of big fishes around here.

Fossils...

Giant Catfish.

Giant Catfish+my Cousin

Blue-spotted Ray.

Horse-shoe crab!

A funny fish that will follow the contours of the rock.

Bo-something. Forgot the name. A family of Piranha.

My cousin and the FISH. =.=

Stone fish.

Moray-eel... are blind fishes which depends on their nostrils to sense things.

Seahorses~

Close up Shots of Seahorses.

They are fishes. I forgot their names...

Fishes that looks like snakes. When they sense danger, they will hide inside the sand.

Close up view...

Different types of baby sharks

Below is the jaws of different kinds of sharks.

It's 11.30pm....soon it is time to bunk in.

Sleeping bag

Place we are gg to slp... WoOts~

28th March 2010

We woke up at 6.30am in the morning? The view was... all the sharks were slping. =.=

Nurse Shark slping...

Giant Grouper Slping....

Cat-fishes...

Welcome the Stingray's family...

Eagle Ray...

By the time we took all the photos and all that... Everyone had packed up and left except us.

Empty!!!

In the afternoon, we went to see Dolphins performing at the Dolphin Lagoon...

The trainers prepare the Dolphins by feeding, cleaning and checking them.

The Dolphin will make this position and hold there on a weighing scale to take its weight under the instruction of the trainer.

Soon after the Dolphin show started. It was an very interesting show and i really admired the Dolphins as well as the trainers for training them to do different tricks.

We also managed to touch the seal which has a name called Emily. Before we touched her, the staff must spray something on our hands before touching her. *Smelly Smelly*