Review of the Melbourne Aquarium
While in Melbourne, Victoria we visited the Melbourne Aquarium. We were traveling Australia and living in Melbourne at the time and I needed a good spot to take my girlfriend for her birthday. My girlfriend loved the movie planet earth and wanted to see blue planet so I thought she would love the Melbourne Aquarium. We were living on Flinders street in Melbourne and had seen the Aquarium quite a bit (it is hard not to notice)
Melbourne Aquarium - photo from standbymelbourne.com
The Melbourne Aquarium is located on Flinders st, just off of the Yarra river. You can take the tram there, and if you are in Melbourne you can even hop on the City Circle tram which is free! Even better, while you are on the city circle tram pick up one of those visitor guides and there should be a coupon for 10% off of your visit to the Melbourne Aquarium.
The Aquarium features a 2.2 million litre oceanarium which is amazing! This is basically a big donut aquarium, so visitors walk into the middle and the fish swim all around the outside. It is almost like the people are in the aquarium and the fish are watching. Another neat thing about the Melbourne aquarium is the tunnel to get to the centre of the aquarium. Check it out in the picture below
Aquarium Walkway thanks to neilcreek.com for this one 
Pretty sweet eh! I needed to borrow some photo’s for this blog post because I only brought my point and shoot camera and I wanted to show everyone how cool the aquarium was. It is such an amazing experience standing inside of this tunnel. The aquarium holds multiple sharks, turtles and MASSIVE Manta Rays! The coolest part is that they swim right over your head
Shark swimming overhead at Melbourne Aquarium
Once you stand in awe in the tunnel you can move through to the middle. Here is a shot of the middle of the aquarium this cool picture of the Melbourne Aquarium is thanks to Neil Creek again
Inside the Melbourne Aquarium
There are quite a lot of people in this picture, when I went with my girlfriend there was only a few people inside at a time. The big window there is one of the main viewing areas and there is another just like it on the other side. Then on the left and right of this picture you can see the entrance and exit. If you walk through those then that is where the fish, sharks and Manta Rays swim right over your head. If you have the money you can even pay to swim with the sharks and manta rays, however you do not need to be in the water to be close to the Manta Rays! The one below is probably 6 feet wide
While I was at the aquarium I decided to eat some sushi!
haha just kidding!
There is A LOT more to the Melbourne Aquarium then just the big fish tank though. There are four levels in total, each with a different theme and they have recently added the Antarctic display with PENGUINS! Below is a picture I took on one of the levels
Here is a list of all the levels they have at the Melbourne Aquarium
- Level One of the aquarium.
- Creepy cave, including the giant Murray cod
- Billabong
- Rock Pools
- Mangrove
- Upper Deck Cafe
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Ground Floor
- Sink or Swim, featuring giant crabs and sea dragons
- Coral Atoll
- Sea jellies
- Creepy cave, with Japanese spider crabs
- Moorings Cafe
- Aquarium Shop
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Level B1
- Octopus display
- Kids Play area
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Level B2
- BHP Billiton Shark Conservation Project & Animal Nursery
- Oceanarium
- Fishbowl
- Ocean Theatre
We had a great time at the Aquarium. There is a lot more than just the pictures I have shown and just after we visited they started building the Penguin display, so there is even more to offer right now!
I think our ticket price was $22 plus we got a discount with some coupons. So if you are in Melbourne, head on over to the Melbourne Aquarium, it is a lot of fun! Let me know what you think.
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