Thursday, 1 October 2015
Start the day with this.
Since we had to meet our uncle for a short while at his workplace, he suggests us to walk down the street. His workplace is at 21 Carlton Street. So, we walk down along Sherbourne Street and turn right at Carlton Street. This is the pictures along the walk.
After visiting CN tower, we took a walk near the tower. Here's more pictures of it.
After this visit, we immediately go in to Ripley's Aquarium of Canada. Brief description of this place as follows:-
Ripley's Aquarium of Canada is a public aquarium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The aquarium is one of three aquariums owned and operated by Ripley Entertainment. It is located in downtown Toronto, just southeast of the CN Tower. The aquarium features several aquatic exhibits including a walk-through tank. The aquarium has 5.7 million litres (1.5 million gallons) of marine and freshwater habitats from across the world. The exhibits hold 13,500 exotic sea and freshwater specimens from more than 450 species.
The aquarium holds 5.7 million litres (1.5 million gallons) of water and shows marine and freshwater habitats from around the world.[7] The aquarium is organized into nine galleries: Canadian Waters, Rainbow Reef, Dangerous Lagoon, Discovery Centre, The Gallery, Ray Bay, Planet Jellies, Life Support Systems and the Shoreline Gallery. It is home to 16,000 animals.
- The Canadian Waters exhibit features animals from all the bodies of water surrounding Canada. The gallery has 17 habitats. Some animals featured in this exhibit include: alewife, largemouth bass, American lobster, wolf eel, lump fish, giant pacific octopus, china rockfish
The Rainbow Reef features animals from the Indo-Pacific water regions and is the most colourful gallery in the exhibit, hence the name, Rainbow Reef. Some of the species in this exhibit include: Picasso triggerfish, humbug dascyllus, emperor angelfish, pajama cardinalfish,unicorn surgeonfish. The exhibit also features an interactive dive show.
- The Dangerous Lagoon is an underwater tunnel with a moving side walk, which is the aquarium's largest tank. Some of the featured animals in this thrilling exhibit are: sand tiger shark, sandbar shark, roughtail stingray, green sawfish, green sea turtles.
- The Discovery Centre features various hands-on activities such as underwater viewing bubbles, a pop-up research submarine and a touch pool which allows visitors to touch living fossils. Discovery Centre inhabitants include: clownfish, palette surgeonfish, horseshoe crab, guineafowl puffer.[1] The Touch exhibits gives visitors the opportunity to touch the skins of various animals like sharks and sting-rays with the help of aquarium employees. This gallery is home to whitespotted bamboo sharks, brownbanded bamboo sharks,southern stingray, cownose rays.
- The Gallery exhibit, also known as Mother Nature's Art Gallery, features some of the most delicate underwater species from all over the world. This exhibit features the red lionfish, electric eel, lined seahorse, weedy sea dragon and the archerfish. This exhibit features six salt water and three fresh water exhibits.
- The Planet Jellies exhibit has colour changing displays with five different species of jellyfish. The jellyfish that this exhibit features are: pacific sea nettle, moon jelly, spotted jelly, and upside-down jelly.
The Ray Bay exhibit is focused around three distinct species of stingrays. Occasionally visitors can see aquarium divers feeding the stingrays during their daily interactive dive shows. Some of the inhabitants of this exhibit include the bonnethead shark, cownose ray, and the southern stingray.
- The Life Support System gives visitors a behind the scenes look at the aquarium’s life support systems room. The Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada features the largest life support systems room of all three Ripley’s aquariums. This gallery features the equipment for the Dangerous Reef and Ray Bay.
As promised, here are the pictures.
After visiting this aquarium, we went to a train museum, that was actually closed. But we did manage to get a few shots here before walking back to Toronto Eaton Centre.
We went to Toronto Eaton Centre and walk around, before meeting my uncle after his shift ended.
After waiting for almost an hour, he showed up and we walk straight along Dundas Street, showing the bus that we will take to a place that is full of surprises, and also to shop around Spadina, which is Toronto's Asia market or Chinatown. I'll leave with the pictures and also see you on the next post.
Heavy dinner.
See you on my next post, we are going somewhere beautiful, experiencing almost near border of Canada and the United States.
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