Magical Melbourne Aquarium

Nov 26
10:09

2009

Nirmani Dabare

Nirmani Dabare

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The Melbourne Aquarium with is diverse exhibits featuring an amazing array of marine life is one of the city’s foremost attractions. Visitors will be mesmerized by the size of the aquarium and its variety of marine creatures.

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Melbourne is the capital of the Australian state of Victoria and the second largest city in the country. Situated on Port Philip Bay,Magical Melbourne Aquarium Articles the city was founded in 1835 and was initially called ‘Bearbrass’. In 1837 it was christened Melbourne in honour of Britain’s 2nd Viscount of Melbourne. A huge influx of settlers In the 1850s due to the Victorian gold rush made Melbourne a city of note, one of the biggest and richest in the world at the time. Melbourne is esteemed for its mixture of modern and Victorian buildings, well planned parks and gardens and thriving multicultural society. Surveys have confirmed its status as one of the most desirable cities in which to live.  Melbourne also annually hosts a large number of tourists from around the world.

The famed Melbourne Aquarium is one of the city’s premier attractions. Constructed in the late nineties, the complex has been designed to resemble a ship anchored on the river. The building reaches a depth of 7 metres below the surface of the water. The mammoth aquarium features a circular design where the visitors seem to become the exhibit for the marine creatures swimming around them. The aquarium’s main exhibit consists of massive grey nurse and broadnose sevengill sharks amidst other ocean life contained in a huge fishbowl.

Melbourne Aquarium also features an Antarctic themed section which displays King penguins, Gentoo penguins and other marine life in the midst of a special zone with genuine ice and snow. Visitors are conducted on a simulated tour to Antarctica.

The ‘Weird and Wonderful’ display offers the observer the privilege of viewing some of the most unusual and exotic creatures to be found in the sea, from spiky lionfish, colour-changing cuttlefish and armour-carrying crabs to sea dragons with a live coral garden in the background.

The mesmerizing ‘River to Reef’ exhibit takes visitors on a visit to an enchanting underwater jungle, with denizens such as snakes, catfish, turtles, rainbow fish, poison arrow frogs and barramundi. You may also get acquainted with the Murray Cod, Australia’s biggest freshwater fish.

The Melbourne spas are also a magnet for foreign visitors, particularly the Melbourne day spas such as the Chuan Spa Melbourne. The Chuan Spa offers body wraps, hydrotherapy, massages, facials and polishes among other treatments to pamper and delight the visitor.