It’s been years and years since the Sealife Helsinki aquarium was opened. Last Embarrassingly enough, last Saturday was the first time I visited it.
The aquarium is housed in a large building next to Linnanmäki amusement park, and is certainly easy enough to reach.
The selection is pretty much confined to fish and occasional invertebrates – no penguins, no seals and especially no whales.
Inmates range from the typical (large swarms of cardinal tetras) to seldom seen (cold water rays), via oddballs (trumpetfish). This year’s theme is sharks, and there are a plenty of them on show – though they are from the small end of the range.
Compared to the likes of New England Aquarium and the one in Barcelona the Sealife Helsinki is a small establishment with around forty tanks. Twoof which are large enough to walk around (or even through). A few are embedded in walls with bulbous extensions providing visibility into the usually odd inmates.
Been there 3 times… But no T-shirt.
For me, it was the first time seen Jellyfish! With UV lighting! Magical.
I wonder if UV causes mutations in Jellyfish.
Forgot about jellyfish. They were cool indeed.
I saw them first in Boston (easily half a dozen tanks), so it wasn’t a revelation.
The pictures of them didn’t turn out too well, altogether I was rather disappointed with the speed of the kit lens, a lot of the images turned out to have movement in them. Time to go shopping.