Our Aquarium (Cape Town)

[capetownguy]

just thought id post afew photos of our two oceans aquarium here in the waterfront cape town.....(so you can see the kind of underwater environment and fish/sharks etc. we have in our oceans)

[capetownguy]

the rest of the photos

[Morg]

Wow very nice photos. Are those Yellow Tail Jacks? (Your first post.. Last picture).

I run into quite a lot of people from Cape Town and they are constantly suggesting that I go down there and dive. I would love to go and dive anywhere so its on my to do list .

[capetownguy]

Dunno about the jacks part but we call them yellowtail here....mmmmm mouth is watering just thinking about them....heehee
summer is on its way here and so are the yellowtail...so i reakon a trip here would be good right about now...

[Morg]

Haha yeah no time like the present . I am a bit tied up now at the moment but I am hoping that my new change of career that will take place in Canada will aid me in travelling around and being able to visit these places.

[zebrafishle]

wow, i am quiet a bit jealous about the beauty you have there. enjoy it!

[Lenny]

For this to be a truly capetonian picture, What Greg's photo's missing is the 6m Great White swimming in amongst all that.

[island_sands]

Hey there, i dived the aquarium last year it was fantastic!! i dived both tanks, the shark and the kelp. Will post piccies later! 2 Oceans is a fantastic aquarium.

[Lenny]

Wow I didn't know you could dive in the kelp tank?

[island_sands]

Originally Posted by Lenny

Wow I didn't know you could dive in the kelp tank?

yep, and theres a little pyjama shark in there

[Lenny]

hehe, those little sharks are so fun to play around with. I was once diving for crayfish and there where some guys in a little canoe, who had their crayfish ring stuck. They asked me to try get it loose. Now when i went down, there just happened to be a big pyjama shark chopping their bait bag, so I took the opportunity to play a little prank. I grabbed the shark swam up and as I surfaced I dumped the Shark into their canoe. The panic was histerical! It was quite funny

Someone suggested that they make good biltong, but everytime I see one I never have the heart to shoot it, they always seem so innocent and graceful.

[island_sands]

Originally Posted by Lenny

hehe, those little sharks are so fun to play around with. I was once diving for crayfish and there where some guys in a little canoe, who had their crayfish ring stuck. They asked me to try get it loose. Now when i went down, there just happened to be a big pyjama shark chopping their bait bag, so I took the opportunity to play a little prank. I grabbed the shark swam up and as I surfaced I dumped the Shark into their canoe. The panic was histerical! It was quite funny

Someone suggested that they make good biltong, but everytime I see one I never have the heart to shoot it, they always seem so innocent and graceful.

awww shame i couldnt either! it was the cutest little thing and very friendly. check out some pics of raggy tank and the kelp tank

[BatRay]

How in the world do you get permission to dive an aquarium? That would be so awesome. I know I always want to climb in the tanks when I visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

[Lenny]

Over here it's quite easy if, you just need a basic scuba course, and about R400. (thats probally about 57$). You could even make friends with people like BlueCape who works there!

Islands sands - They have now released those old raggies, there are now no longer any sharks in the big tank. The only real sharks they have now are juvenile raggies in a smaller tank which you can't dive in. So you where quite lucky to get a dive in with the raggies

[island_sands]

oh really!!! wow i am lucky then. it was an AWESOME experience. the dive guide had a big stick to push them off if necessary. looking at the size of their teeth i wouldnt have thought it was worthwhile