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The Ucluelet Mini Aquarium is one of the coolest places to visit. It is a collection
of sea life that is captured by the aquarium's divers, placed into viewing tanks,
then released back into the ocean. How's that for a great idea. We get to view
sea life that we'd only see if we were divers and it's a beautiful sight. The
aquarium is also very much a hands-on kind of place. Where the tanks are open
you are allowed to gently touch the sea creatures.
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Ucluelet Mini Aquarium |
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Anemones
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| Entering the Ucluelet Mini Aquarium
you see a table tank full of brightly coloured anemones. They were soft to the
touch and curled around your fingers when you touched them. Below one of the knowledgeable
and friendly aquarium staff, Pamela Fry, explains the world of anemones to a visitor
(my Dad). You'll notice lots of photos of the anemones because I loved them -
the colour and the textures were fascinating. |
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| Some anemone have smooth tentacles
and others had a feathery texture to theirs. In the photo on the left the brown
creature sitting on the rock is the same as the one with the green tentacles in
front of it except that it has closed to eat something it's caught. The same in
the right photo. The open anemone with the feathery tentacles sits in front of
a closed one. You can also see a closed feathery one on the left of the left hand
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Smooth tentacled anemone |
Feather-like tentacled anemone |
Starfish
Starfish come in many different colours and shapes as you will see from the photos
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Crabs
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Kelp crab |
Hermit Crab |
Other cool sea life - have you ever seen any of these?
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Sea Urchin
Feather Duster Tube Worms |
How do the pen point gunnels and small rock fish swim in the air like this? Visit
the Ucluelet Mini Aquarium and find out! |
Sea Slugs
Sand Dollars
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These sea pens are bright orange in the light and glow blue in the dark. |
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| Pretty little long fin sculpin |
Jelly fish
in Space!
Visit the Ucluelet Mini Aquarium and find out how these jelly fish appear
to float in space. |
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Learn about sea
life at the Ucluelet Mini Aquarium
The Ucluelet Mini Aquarium is a great place for kids of all ages to learn. The
staff provides educational sessions for school groups, day camps, surf schools
and university students. The mini aquarium is a real hand-on experience with open
touch tables, a microscope hooked up to a large monitor and friendly knowledgeable
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Who visits the Ucluelet Mini Aquarium?
Along with you and your friends and family
here are the names of some of the sea life that visit the Ucluelet Mini Aquarium:
Octopus, sand dollars, long nose skate fish, feather duster tube worms, starfish,
mussels, oysters, snails, scallops, crabs, urchins, sea pens, sculpins, ling cod,
sea cucumber, anemones, shrimp, sea slugs, nudibranches, sea lettuce, pen point
gunnels, rockfish, barnacles, kelp crabs, hermit crabs and long fin sculpins.
The Ucluelet Mini Aquarium
Whiskey Dock Promenade, Main Street, Ucluelet, BC 250.726.7349 |
Ucluelet Mini Aquarium
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