Bristol Aquarium

Morgan in a Bubble

Morgan in a Bubble

We’ve just got back from a weekend visiting family in Bristol. Well, between Bristol and Gloucester really but we still call it Bristol.

Morgan was pleased to see all his cousins and had fun playing with them. We obviously went to some shops as we feel as though we have to when we’re in the Big Smoke, but other than a pair of running shoes which I’ll post about elsewhere I think we only bought things in WHSmith and Boots, both of which are shops we have in Aberystwyth! Actually, Morgan did spend some of his Christmas money in Toys ‘R’ Us.

We also went into Cnetral bristol on Saturday and visited the Bristol Aquarium. This is right on the dockside by the Watershed and this part of Bristol has certainly changed recently. I used to go to school right hext to this so knew it all pretty well, but it is now completely unrecognisable. It’s nice though and there certainly seems to be more to do. Plenty to look at and visit and of course lots of nice looking restaurants and coffee shops.

Ready for the iMax

Ready for the iMax

The Aquarium itself was OK. Not amazing and very expensive, but the tanks themselves were fairly well thought out. Most of them had the usual suspects as far as fish go in them but it was nice to see a Marine European tank too. The talks that very given now and then were actually much better than I had expected.

I guess there isn’t a huge amount you can do with an aquarium but it did seem expecisve for what was there. It did however also give us access to films (of a fishy nature) in the iMax 3D cinema. We watched one about sharks.

It was a lovely family afternoon out though and I’m pretty sure that both Anna and Morgan enjoyed themselves which is the main thing. I did too.

Here’s a very poor quality video clip.

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  1. Avatar forComment Author Trudie says:

    By complete coincidence I was looking at the website for this Aquarium at the weekend. I hadn’t even realised it was there. £13.50 did seem a bit steep for the entrance fee? How many tanks were there??

    Trudie

    • Avatar forComment Author Alan says:

      Hi Trudie,
      I think everything is that sort of price these days!. I didn’t count the tanks, but there was one big one with lots of cod and such like, and a nice big reef tank, the other biggish tanks were a tank with rays and skates in and an Amazon tank with the usual suspects – Although these weren’t that exciting.

      Then there were smaller tanks around the place with the usual things, A Piranha tank, blind cave fish, some nice little tanks with jellyfish in that were a bit different and one with a big octopus. For most people I guess it’s all pretty cool, but maybe not for us. ‘Our’ tanks were better in some respects, although Anna thought it was nice being able to look down on the reef tank as well as see it from the glass fronts and the tunnel as usual – I guess we forget that most people have never had the access that we had to such things….. I was quite tempted to jump into the reef tank just for old times sake and it’s lucky the Piranha tank wasn’t big enough for such antics otherwise I may have gone in there too! 🙂

      Al.

      Al.

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