Finding Nemo at the Vancouver Aquarium

To make the most of our Julie and Hayleys last day off before work (yuck!) we went on an excursion to Vancouver Aquarium. Its in Stanley Park which is this fabulous big botanical garden type park. It has horse rides around it, swimming pools, minature railways and loads and loads of beautiful parklands. We only explored the aquarium today but many more visits to the park are planned to see and experience it all. The aquarium is nothing at all like the big sea parks but was fun none the less.

These are the 2 white striped dolphins the park has - Laverne and Spinnaker. They put on a pretty good show but as always its virtually impossible to take photos of them doing cool stuff :) There was also a beluga whale show but cause of the sea water we had to put our cameras away :(

The wee dolphins - they aren't much bigger than Hectors Dolphins (the Kiwis will know what I mean)

The massive sea lion! He weighs 800kgs!

One of the dolphins showing off to the crowd.

Jesse and Jules enjoying the sun in front of the aquarium.

Not quite up to Australia Zoos size but CRIKEY! The gift shop was even selling Steve Irwin dolls and stuff which cracked us up.

The sea turtle that lives in same tank as the sharks... Wouldn't be my choice of flatmate!

One of the huge and amazing tropical fish aquariums. There were heaps of them and all were different but equally awesome to watch.

There was a great big jellyfish display with these big fellas in there. Its fascinating to watch how they move. Bet ya didn't know that jelly fish don't have brains or hearts!

I finally found Nemo! He was hiding in the little kids play section - they get to have all the fun!