The aquarium is a microcosm of the mysterious undersea world. Whether have a childlike big friend, or children will find their own favorite marine life in the aquarium, find their happiest appearance. Sydney Aquarium, one of the largest and most spectacular aquariums in the world, has tens of thousands of species of marine life for you to watch, and more opportunities to come close to them! The world's rare "mermaid" dugong can also be seen here!
Photo: Sydney Aquarium Night View
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Located in the heart of Darling Harbor, the Sydney Aquarium, close to the Sydney Wildlife Park and the Sydney Lady Tusa Wax Museum, is a public aquarium in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, which has been open for more than 30 years. From freshwater rivers to tropical waters to the world's largest Great Barrier Reef, it seems to surround Australia's coastline. Sydney Aquarium is different from other aquariums in the Sydney Aquarium is built by the sea, aquaculture water is directly from the port, is the real Sydney underwater world!
More than 13000 species of seafloor from over 700 species in different parts of Australia, including the Great Barrier Reef, Deep Sea, Tasmania, Rock Bank, mangroves and Sydney Harbor, are visible here. There are only six Mermaid dugongs on display around the world, two of which can be seen at the Sydney Aquarium! There are also huge sharks, stingray, Australia's unique platypus, penguins, sea dragons and other thousands of tropical fish species, so that children can freely explore the mysterious and rich world of the sea!
Learn their heartwarming stories in Burgundy, face their fears bravely in Shark Valley, make close contact with marine life in the touch pool, take a boat expedition with friends on Penguin Island, and experience more than ever before at the Sydney Aquarium!
Photo: the Mermaid dugong
Utility information:
[opening hours] 10: 00 a.m. to 18:00 (the latest entry time is 17: 00 p.m., the business hours are adjusted according to the season, the specific time is subject to the official website).
Web site: httPS://www.sydneyaquarium.com.au/plan/getting-here
[address] SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium,1-5 Wheat Rd, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia. Located in the central business district of Sydney
[traffic]
Train: get off from Town Hall or Wynyard Station and walk to Sydney Aquarium.
Taxi: tell the driver to get off at Lime Street or Wheat Road's King Street Wharf.
Light Rail: get off at Convention Centre or Pyrmont Bay Station.
Walking: walk 5 minutes from the Central Business District along Market Street or King Street.
5 bus: Sydney sightseeing bus stop 24, or take another bus to Market Street or King Stree, to walk to Love Harbo
Ferry: from wharf 5 (Circular Quay Wharf 5) ferries to Darling port leave every half an hour.
Self-drive: although there are no public parking spaces at Sydney Marine Aquarium, there are some public parking lots within walking distance. Visitors who park their cars in any nearby Wilson car park can enjoy a parking fee discount, which is as low as $6 a day.
Fresh Great Barrier Reef
Sydney Aquarium celebrated its 30th birthday in 2018 and opened a new indoor Great Barrier Reef exhibition at the end of November!
Come to Sydney Aquarium to experience the brand-new iconic Great Barrier Reef wonder area. This brand-new exhibition area is the world's largest Great Barrier Reef, using state-of-the-art technology to provide a completely unique interactive experience for visitors to experience the colorful Great Barrier Reef world in an indoor setting!
As the coral reef changes day and night, life on the reef is being created, and we can discover new things 24 hours a day. Here, you can not only walk through the shimmering beach, through the jellyfish garden, but also see the glow of coral spawning on the reef! When the sun rises in the morning, you can also see the sun traverse the bright rocks and welcome the fresh sea turtles!
Participate in an interactive program on the Great Barrier Reef to help turtles nest and guide turtles safely into the sea. This is a good opportunity for children to understand nature and be kind to their children. Along the way you will meet other turtles, reef sharks and sawfish, as well as more than 500 beautiful marine life and tropical fish, planting seeds of love for nature in the small hearts of children.
The family joined hands to learn more about all the efforts and changes made by local staff to protect Australia's biggest natural spectacle, the Great Barrier Reef! The educational significance of reality can not be underestimated!
There is a wonderful interactive lighting show, showing the rare phenomenon of bioluminescence. In addition to marvel, walking in the "waves", the bioluminescence will be in
The action of dynamic display spatters under your feet, the big children will rush over again and again, cheering, jumping, dancing with the lights, immersed in the magic of nature under it!
Figure: interactive Lights Show
Penguin Adventure Island
You don't have to go to Antarctica, and you can see the cute penguins in the theme area of the Penguin Island Adventure at Sydney Aquarium! This is the world's first "penguin adventure" theme of the Penguin Pavilion, you can personally observe a large number of King penguins and Papua penguins, experience unprecedented shock, people feel as if they really came to the South Pole.
Photo: Penguin Adventure Island lovely Penguins
Penguin adventure passport
With a penguin passport, you have a unique ticket to a once-in-a-lifetime meeting with a subAntarctic penguin. Wear special sub-Antarctic snow warm equipment, 75 minutes of travel to take you into an ice Wonderland.
The majestic king and cheeky Papua penguins jump, sway and slide on the ice in front of you, observing their rich movements and photographing interesting moments. There is also a backstage tour of how to prepare penguin food and learn how to keep the venue cold.
Here, you can also observe the rich activities of birds, take full advantage of the great opportunity to take pictures! More opportunities to work behind the scenes for cute penguins: watch the penguin food preparation area and this state-of-the-art exhibition how to keep its cold temperatures and other "secrets" oh ~
Practical information
[time] 13:30 (year round)-15:30 (September-April) every day
[number limit] No more than 4 at a time
PS:75 minute Antarctic Penguin Expedition is not included in the ticket, additional purchase is required
Penguin cruise ship
Penguin Adventure is the first penguin exhibition in the world, allowing guests to visit the King Penguin and White eyebrow Penguin habitat at the Sydney Aquarium. The crew stores water in the pool every day to make it easier for penguins to play together. Guests can take up to eight people each day on an expedition boat, start their journey along the river, and cross the penguin habitat in person. Watch the cute Papua penguins and King penguins at close range!
Richard Dilly, general manager of the Sydney Aquarium, said: "with a total cost of US $9 million and a huge investment, it is the largest expenditure in the history of Sydney Aquarium in its 28-year history. The plan to build a home for penguins costs so much blood and is part of a long-term education program for penguin conservation and breeding. "
Practical information
[time] 3 minutes cruise ship
[number limit] 8
Found the little penguin.
In the wild, young penguins have many natural predators, including seals and sharks in the water, and reptiles and birds on land. Unfortunately, the protected species is now under increasing threat: the growing number of domestic and wild animals, such as cats and foxes, has reduced the size of the penguin's natural habitat; Human overfishing of marine life has reduced penguins' food reserves.
Therefore, small penguins need more human breeding and protection.
So at Sydney Aquarium you can see a lot of young penguins still growing, just out of town. Unfinished fluff, walk a shake a swing, wrestling with the chest "brake", the cute look is also too cute ~
Burgundy Island (Mermaid)
Dugong (Dugong) comes from Malay, meaning "daughter of the Sea." In the past, they had been mistakenly thought to be mermaids by sailors who had been wandering in the ocean all year round, but according to new scientific research, they were in fact close relatives of elephants.
Early European navigators often treated manatees or dugongs as mermaids, not only because they had breasts, dexterous forelimbs, and fish-like tails. And the breast-feeding dugong's embrace of the cubs reminds the year-round sailors of their mothers and their wives and children. As a result, the symbol of beauty of the "mermaid" has become a synonym for these silly big guys ~
It is worth mentioning that although dugong and manatee are aquatic large herbivorous mammals, their appearance is very similar, but there are obvious differences. The tail of dugong is similar to the Y tail of dolphin, while the tail of manatee is flat and slightly round. Dugongs are mainly distributed on the coast of the western Pacific and Indian Ocean, while manatees live in tropical waters, mainly in the Atlantic basin.
Dugong Pig and Wuru, famous residents of the Sydney Aquarium, came to their area of life on the island of Burgundy. They were found and rescued in Queensland, spent their childhood in the Ocean World on the Gold Coast, moved to the Sydney Aquarium in 2008, were taken care of and had a happy life. And friendly, they are happy to interact with visitors.
Shark valley
The ferocious sharks in the aquarium have long been one of tourists' favorite animals. They are mysterious, elegant and ferocious, attracting the eyes of countless tourists. And the Sydney Aquarium Shark Valley is a rare and protected shark! Let's see!
Grey nurse sharks declined sharply in the 1960s and 1970s, and in 1984 they became the first sharks in the world to be granted protective status. Although the grey nurse shark looks terrible and has rows of sharp teeth, it poses no threat to humans.
Black-fin reef sharks are habitually identified by the protruding black tip of their fins. The species, up to 120 cm long, feeds on crustaceans and other small fish.
White-fin reef sharks are thinner than other sharks, with oval eyes and distinctive white pointed fins, up to 1.6 meters long. Its diet includes eels, octopuses and crustaceans.
The Wobbegong shark is a carpet shark found in temperate and tropical waters of the Indian Ocean-Pacific Ocean. The name "Wobbegong" originated from the native Australian language, meaning "fluffy beard." It refers to the growth of whiskers around the mouth. Unlike other sharks, Wobbegong has patterned skin and dark spots that help it camouflage at the bottom of the sea.
Gray reef sharks are one of the most common sharks in the Indian Ocean-Pacific Ocean, usually in coastal shallow waters as low as 60 meters. Up to 1.9 meters long, grey reef sharks feed on free-swimming hard bones, cephalopods and a range of crustaceans, including squid, octopus, crab and lobster.
The appearance of sand tiger shark is fierce, but the character is quiet and gentle, it is a miracle in the sea. Look at them swimming slowly in the aquarium, but it's incredibly fast to start the fire!
Ultimate shark diving
Diving with sharks at the Sydney Aquarium is a blood-racking experience, a rare experience in the world's few affordable underwater encounters with sharks. Our tiger sharks range from 2.5 to 3.2 meters long and grey nurse sharks from 1 to 3 meters long. When you take part in this project, you choose to enter their field and face the world of sharks without iron cages.
Put on the equipment for launching, under the leadership of the staff to carry out extreme shark diving, into shark territory and face-to-face with them! You will also encounter a large number of native marine life: devil fish, beard sharks, and so on a large number of unnamed species. At this point, you just need to let go of the courage, open your eyes, and put your heart and soul into the feeling of the undersea world!
And even if you don't have diving experience, you can take part in this event. Besides Grey Nurse Sharks, you'll also meet other animals in Sydney. Such as sea turtles, giant stingray, mackerel, and hundreds of amazing marine life!
Practical information
[open hours] up to 4 times a day
[time] A total of 2.5 hours (including 30 minutes of diving time)
[number] up to 4 persons per dive (participants must be 14 years of age or older)
PS: this activity is not included in the ticket, additional purchase is required
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Introduction and training courses on "scuba diving" (about 90 minutes); all diving equipment and suits; extreme shark diving certificate (please bring your own towels)
Tips：
- All those who cannot speak English must be accompanied by an interpreter and have reasonable swimming skills. For health and safety reasons, non-English speakers cannot be allowed to dive with sharks without an interpreter.
- Scuba diving is highly physical, and people who suffer from asthma, heart disease, epilepsy, diabetes, chest disease including pneumothorax, nasal sinus disease, ear problems / surgery, hypertension, pregnancy.
- Don't drink before diving.
- You can't fly for 12 hours after diving.
- A basic swimming foundation is required.
- Participants must be over 14 years of age and above, and those aged 14-18 years must be accompanied by adults.
Jurassic sea
There is also a Jurassic area at the Sydney Aquarium, showing some of the species that existed in the Jurassic era, all of which are very rare marine organisms! Jurassic kelp you go deep into the ocean, look at the origin of life, and encounter strange and wonderful living fossils. Understand evolution and discover mysterious creatures such as Nautilus, Jackson harbor shark, jellyfish and lung fish.
nautilus
Deep in the Jurassic waters of the Sydney Aquarium, there is a mysterious nautilus, a cephalopod closely associated with squid, octopus and cuttlefish. The first Nautilus appeared more than 500 million years ago, and today's creatures have little change to their ancestors, so they are often described as living fossils. They have the extraordinary ability to use jet thrusters to quickly move away from predators through their internal chamber systems.
Photo: Nautilus
Sydney octopus
The common Sydney octopus is an octopus found on the east coast of Australia. They have a powerful set of defensive mechanisms that hide from the start and escape as quickly as possible when discovered by predators; from ink-jet camouflage and even self-amputation, a process known as autonomy. So they are considered one of the smartest animals to be found in any aquarium.
Photo: Sydney octopus
More interesting experienc
Touch probe pool
In the Sydney Aquarium's touch exploration pool, you can truly touch with your hands and feel the real marine life. For example, starfish, sea cucumbers, lobsters, and even shark eggs can be oh ~ to take the children to truly feel the bottom of the world!
Take a glass-bottomed boat
Enter the staff area behind the aquarium and experience a 30-minute unique experience. An amazing array of marine animals will be seen, with a variety of sharks at the bottom and side of the boat, dozens of energetic tropical fish and only sea turtles.
Practical information
It runs every day from 11:00 to 16:30.
It can accommodate up to 8 people (aged 3 years and over) at a time.
last
Walk through a perspective tunnel under two huge floating marine aquariums in Sydney, watching dugongs, eels, sharks, tropical fish, corals and so on glide over you. Looking at the huge reef of shiny fish and corals, and watching sea lions play under the bottom of the sea, it's really like walking through the bottom of the sea, full of proximity, high fidelity to appreciate the ocean world.
Author: 77-Kingsta
