Auckland, July 14th 2015
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| Emperor Penguin, the tallest penguin in the Penguin Kingdom |
Certainly an emperor but not a Chinese or Japanese emperor :D
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| The Emperor flips his wings. |
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That means, the penguin is feeling warm, not cold!
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| The Emperor checks on the ground... oops! |
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| The Emperor must have offspring, although not yet alike. |
Penguins, an Emperor or not, are born entirely different from their parents, on the outside.
Since I started preparing my itinerary till the day I set foot on Auckland, I kept seeing Kelly Tarlton's being mentioned here and there. Of course I didn't decide to visit because of that. You know, I'm not that kind. However, when I entered Kelly Tarlton's, to be honest, I was disappointed. "Is this all for being mentioned everywhere?" Or should I blame myself for have been going to too many (maybe) aquariums? What I'm seeing now is just half fascinating as Tokyo's Sumida Aquarium... ah.
Oh yes, I have seen Emperor Penguins before, under open air, with no glass wall in between, in Ueno, Japan.
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| Protect Sea Turtles! They are either endangered or highly endangered! |
My eyes moved around finding something I had never seen before.
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| Plastic Bag = Jelly Fish |
Ahahahaha!!! What a kid's mind! was my first reaction reading this. Plastic bag floating in the water do look like jelly fish, indeed! But no, that's no joke at all. That's scientists' discovery, I read further.
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| Besides this one, there's another piece mentioning "jelly fish" which apparently my camera had missed out. |
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| Good picture, bad photo. Blurry :P Picturing a turtle thinking of jelly fish. |
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| Do you make mistakes in spelling? Don't be embarrassed. NZ kids do, too! |
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| My favorite of all! |
Turtles can't eat chocolate, you know! Even a 5-year knows that!
I stared at the small tables and chairs, color pencils, coloring book, at the stack of sticky notes... and I knew. This place is more into educating, whilst I had come expecting to be amused, to be fascinated, to be entertained. See? What a highly appreciated way to educate a child in sea turtle protection! For this one reason, I'm labeling this post with "inner beauty" besides "moving beauty" a.k.a. animals.
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| Wow. Maybe you can leave your stomach at the doctor's and go back to work. |
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| Being a shark dentist must be a promising business! |
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| The complete opposite to shark!! No teeth, no stomach. |
But, wait! Seadragon??
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| Spiny Seadragon. Solegnathus spinosissimus. |
Is the dragon Chinese?
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| Aye! Maybe there are more seahorses than humans in NZ... |
In the end, I had to admit, I had seen many things, but I didn't know many things.
The other reason of labeling this post with "inner beauty" is the understanding of Kelly Tarlton. I always admire people who live their passion, and succeed. However, for Kelly Tarlton, there is more to that. It's like that his whole life had been meant for this aquarium. I couldn't get myself to capture the articles displayed on the wall. Tragic success. Maybe... for that reason Kelly Tarlton's Sea Aquarium is mentioned everywhere.
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