Just across the street of our hotel there is Melbourn Aquarium. Since it’s so close we decided to go by and take a look inside. Sadly the aquarium is much smaller than the one in Hong Kong, but it has some species that I haven’t seen before.
Soon after entering you get a chance to touch the egg of a shark. I didn’t even know they have eggs let alone that they look like some sea cucumber. 🙂
![Shark Eggs](https://bizjak.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/melbourne-40-1-525x350.jpg)
Soon after we had a chance to meet what laid out of this eggs.
The main aquarium was large with multiple species of sharks, a swordfish, sting rays and some gigantic fishes.
![Large colourful fish](https://bizjak.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/melbourne-47-525x350.jpg)
![Me standing beside the big fish](https://bizjak.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/melbourne-48-525x350.jpg)
After we went by the exhibit of a gigantic crocodile. Sadly in the picture it doesn’t look as large, but his head must have been as big as a small cow. We asked about it and he was about 5m long and weighted 700kg.
![5m long, weighting about 700kg](https://bizjak.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/melbourne-49-525x350.jpg)
Afterwards I, for the first time in my life, saw sea horses. Can you spot it?
![Sea horse](https://bizjak.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/melbourne-51-525x350.jpg)
![Sea horse](https://bizjak.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/melbourne-52-525x350.jpg)
We also spotted some weird nosed fishes.
![I have no idea what it does with that nose.](https://bizjak.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/melbourne-50-525x350.jpg)
And last but not least, we saw a pack of penguins. They seemed to be more lazy than the ones in Hong Kong since no-one was swimming. They actually have some wild penguins here that live on a island nearby of Melbourne, but sadly I don’t think we’ll have time to see them.