SeaLife Aquarium Vlog

My partner, Luke, had his birthday not too long ago, and I booked a whole day out with exciting things to do. For his entire life, he has loved fish. When living in his old house, he kept multiple fish tanks in his room filled with all kinds of beautiful fish. Luke has kept a community tank with angles, sharks and plecos. Another tank housed tiger and green barbs. Yet another tank with a barramundi and an eel-tail catfish. Luke reckons there were much more but can't remember all their names.

Since we started dating, he mentioned he had never been to SeaLife before and since then, I had a mental post-it note to make sure when his birthday came around, we must go. I had been there before but I don't remember much, so come along with me again!

It's a one-way trip through the aquarium. Starting from the entry, you skim through multiple attractions until the exit. If you're a lover of the ocean or just sea life in general, this is the place to be.

One of the first attractions towards the entryway!

The vibe was great. Besides the loud kids, the place is very calm. You walk through, and all you can hear is the silent peace of water and the chill area.

Razor fish! Weird lil guys, huh? They have been known to swim exactly like this, vertical and no worries at all.

I made the mistake of taking pictures and videos and failing to take pictures of the species cards next to each fish, so forgive me, I'm relying on Google to name these fish! Also, forgive the camera quality, I took these with my phone - I wish I had taken my Canon.

From the beginning, I knew I had made a good choice because Luke's face was ecstatic, like a kid on Christmas morning.

Look at how cozy and comfortable these guys are.

Look at those cute bellies!

I do wish to own a saltwater tank at some point in my life. I currently have a tropical tank with some corydoras, a loach and some guppies. They have a wood-like ornament, some plants, and they are living their absolute best life. I was aiming for a kuhli loach for the tank but they aren't the easiest to find.

My future saltwater tank will have clown fish. That's what Nemo is, by the way. I adore the black and white ones and I call them 'Swimming Cows'. There are different types of patterns, like Black Ocellaris or Black Storm.

These are the ones I think are SO cute!

Luke has his own tank! He also has a tropical tank, and he has some guramis, loaches and catfish. His catfish are growing very nicely! I feed them every morning, and they go nuts for their food. I don't blame them.

Some cute seahorses...

...some more cute seahorses

Lionfish! Super venomous but very beautiful.

These next few photos and videos are part of the underwater tunnels. There are two of them; one holds the famous dugong (who was very cute but couldn't grab a picture of) and some eagle rays. There were, of course, a bunch of fish in there, too, but I don't know the names of any of them. Enjoy these beautiful creatures.

This was the view above the tunnels and you can see the spotted eagle rays beautiful patterns from up here!

Fish, fish and more fish! You can see Dory too.

Am I bias if I say the eagle rays were the most beautiful?

If you read my blog on Manta Rays, this is what I meant by seeing sting rays for the first time. I thought this was their eyes, nose and mouth!

After these tunnels, the next tunnels were sharks! Seeing these creatures up close was astounding; the size of their teeth, their brutal mass, and the aura about them is skin chilling!

Those teeth!

Port Jackson shark! We saw babies of these.

Selfie!

We waited in the 30-minute line after all this to go and see the penguins! You can either wait to enter boats that float you around the penguins, or you can skip the queue. It was Luke's birthday, we weren't missing this. It was very cold and refreshing, and all penguins squawked and squeaked at us as we went by. SeaLife offers an opportunity to sit up close and personal with these cute creatures with an encounter that I decided to skip on this trip. Definitely next time, for sure.

Luke and I then entered a dark room covered in mirrors, which made it mind-boggling to exit, filled with jellyfish! Another sea creature that find absolutely unique. Spoiler: there will be a blog about them eventually!

I just think they are so fun to watch as they blob around.

This grouper was HUGE! Had to include him in the blog.

And this brings us to the end of our trip.

I think Luke had an amazing time. I want to make SeaLife a trip we do often as there are so many interesting and new things to look at and discover. But I do think we would go on a day when it isn't so busy and crowded with so many people. I would recommend this place to anyone, its amazing to get sucked into this world and be educated on so many new details about our wonderful creatures.

Don't forget to make memories! Photobooths are the way to go!