[ July 2019 ] On the third day in Canada, we spent all day in Toronto.
We did not have any plan, so looked at some internet sites for some idea and found the Ripley Aquarium which was said to be the best in Canada.
In north America, the centre of a city is called downtown and this aquarium was in the Entertainment District within the downtown.
We walked there from our hotel.
We entered this district crossing a bridge from Front Street West and the first thing there was a stadium called Rogers Center.
It is apparently the home to the professional baseball team, Toronto Blue Jays and it is the first major stadium which has the fully retractable roof in north America.
We saw many people queuing to enter there.
Next to the stadium, there is CN Tower.
The height is 533.33 metres and it is for communication as well as for tourism.
We wavered on whether we should go up the tower instead of the aquarium, but in the end remained to our original intention and went to the Ripley Aquarium next door.
The entrance fee was quite expensive, costing more than 90 C$ (￡57, €61, $68) for two.
If you buy the ticket in advance with the particular timing, you can pay less apparently.
Anyway, it was a great aquarium and we liked it.
It is fairly new because it was opened in October 2013.
They have more than 20000 animals there.
There were 10 Galleries including “Canadian Water” with local fish, “Rainbow Reef” with colourful tropical fish and “Ray Bay” focusing on rays.
The most interesting gallery was “Dangerous Lagoon”.
It was a tunnel made of the tank with the length of 96 metres and we moved on the conveyor belt feeling as if we were in the sea.
The big animals like sharks and turtles were swimming above us.
Sometimes they came straight towards us.
When I looked up the sawfish, I could see something like a face with the eyes and the mouth, but apparently the holes looking like eyes are in fact nostrils.
I was fascinated by looking at those animals in the sea.
We see something new to us every time we visit aquariums.
This time we were amazed to see the jelly fish staying upside down.
Apparently it is called Cassiopeia.
They have tanks with the total amount of water of 5.7 m litters and there was a colourful area showing how they manage them.
It was a very educational aquarium.
