Kelly Tarltons

19 October 2013

With a quiet weekend and nothing to do Karen and I headed along to Kelly Tarltons for an action packed afternoon looking at penguins, sharks, eels and crayfish. It was just as good as I remember when I was a kid except instead of jumping in the ice buggy for a ride around the penguins you can stop and look as long as you want.


The trippy ice cave

King penguins going for a dive

Moulting kings

Some king penguins fresh out of the water hanging out for a feed

Gentoo penguin

A Gentoo penguins incubating its egg

A giant squid

Jellyfish

A Hapuka - normally a deep sea fish breed up through aquaculture in bream bay

Stingray and Hapuka tank

Staff feeding a hungry stingray

Lots of little nemos

There were a lot of clown fish

Clownfish

Leatherback turtles are massive

Shark alley

Feeding frenzy in the main tank

Giant kingfish

Turtle

Sharks

School of yellowtail

Longfin eel almost 2m long

Hermit crab

Pufferfish


Packhorse crayfish

Lots of tropical species

Big belly seahorse

Lionfish

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