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Hunstanton sea life
Jul. 2nd, 2010 04:54 pmhttp://www.sealsanctuary.co.uk/hunt1.html
I went to Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary. Penguins are stinky. Sharks are bendy. Seals were not very interactive today, even at food times. The octopus tank said come again later to see the octopus; their octopus is currently invisible. Axolotl are ridiculous and cool. There was a very big spiky looking crab in the Scary Monsters section: it's less scary when it's trying to get out of its old shell. Lobsters are veryvery blue. Jellyfish are excellent and weird and alien and glowy and also one of them was inside out but seemed to manage fine that way. I touched the things you're allowed to touch in the rock pool. Anemone I think, little feathery thing that hides when you touch, and a sort of sticky one that once it was wrapped around my finger the lady said 'it's really stinging you but our skin is so thick we don't feel it'; also there were starfish, and in a different tank ones with twice as many legs that eat the five leg starfish. Starfish are a distinctive texture and very bendy. The best things were the otters. Otters are bendy, bitey, and interactive; they play with their food and with their trainers and with each other and with the water and with the logs and just sort of in general. Otters are good.
I bought a necklace with a shark tooth and a bead with a sunshine face on it.
I spent £8 on my ticket, which is £12 concessions minus the £4 voucher from the tourist leaflets in the supermarket lobby. Useful! Also I discovered that with a disabled ticket you can get a carer ticket and it only costs £5. Very useful. They do not advertise that on the website. Nor can you book a disabled ticket online, just a OAP and a student one. I'm a disabled student and can usually manage a discount somehow or other, but clearer pricing structures are better.
They had a food place that had two whole vegetarian options, one each on the adult and kid menus. I had spaghetti in vegetable sauce and A had a lentil burger. Was eatable.
After the sea life place I went and sat and stared at the sea. They have sand and water. I find that of limited interest and I'm not a big fan of sand. A went out to try and paddle but the water kept running away. I stayed on the concrete walk.
We went there and back by different routes so I have seen quite a lot of Norfolk today. Is pretty. Also once you get to Kings Lynn there's a ton of those brown signs that say something interesting is happening for people ot look at, so there's probably more things to look at if I want to go out again.
Now I'm tired. I shall have to decide food or sleep, but it's hot so probably sleep.
PS: At the sea life sanctuary there was a whole section called Waifs and Strays that is lots of fish and terrapins that have been donated or rescued. People buy a lot of things they don't understand and then they get big and snappy and then they get rid of them. Is no very clever. I saw some fish they said started out being bought for home fishtanks, but now they're BIGGER THAN MY HEAD. Do not buy snappy things bigger than your head. REally. They're bigger than fish tanks. Is no a good idea to buy them.
... oh and I forgot to tell anyone about the typo. It said the fish get 'to big' not 'too big'. I should tell or it'll bug me.
The signs also said before you buy any fish try getting information from three different reputable sources. Impulse buying stuff is not so much the good idea.
(seriously, REALLY BIG fish. Of bigness. And very many snappy terrapins.)
The souvenir shop does not sell fishes. It sells adopt-a-fish packs instead.
I went to Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary. Penguins are stinky. Sharks are bendy. Seals were not very interactive today, even at food times. The octopus tank said come again later to see the octopus; their octopus is currently invisible. Axolotl are ridiculous and cool. There was a very big spiky looking crab in the Scary Monsters section: it's less scary when it's trying to get out of its old shell. Lobsters are veryvery blue. Jellyfish are excellent and weird and alien and glowy and also one of them was inside out but seemed to manage fine that way. I touched the things you're allowed to touch in the rock pool. Anemone I think, little feathery thing that hides when you touch, and a sort of sticky one that once it was wrapped around my finger the lady said 'it's really stinging you but our skin is so thick we don't feel it'; also there were starfish, and in a different tank ones with twice as many legs that eat the five leg starfish. Starfish are a distinctive texture and very bendy. The best things were the otters. Otters are bendy, bitey, and interactive; they play with their food and with their trainers and with each other and with the water and with the logs and just sort of in general. Otters are good.
I bought a necklace with a shark tooth and a bead with a sunshine face on it.
I spent £8 on my ticket, which is £12 concessions minus the £4 voucher from the tourist leaflets in the supermarket lobby. Useful! Also I discovered that with a disabled ticket you can get a carer ticket and it only costs £5. Very useful. They do not advertise that on the website. Nor can you book a disabled ticket online, just a OAP and a student one. I'm a disabled student and can usually manage a discount somehow or other, but clearer pricing structures are better.
They had a food place that had two whole vegetarian options, one each on the adult and kid menus. I had spaghetti in vegetable sauce and A had a lentil burger. Was eatable.
After the sea life place I went and sat and stared at the sea. They have sand and water. I find that of limited interest and I'm not a big fan of sand. A went out to try and paddle but the water kept running away. I stayed on the concrete walk.
We went there and back by different routes so I have seen quite a lot of Norfolk today. Is pretty. Also once you get to Kings Lynn there's a ton of those brown signs that say something interesting is happening for people ot look at, so there's probably more things to look at if I want to go out again.
Now I'm tired. I shall have to decide food or sleep, but it's hot so probably sleep.
PS: At the sea life sanctuary there was a whole section called Waifs and Strays that is lots of fish and terrapins that have been donated or rescued. People buy a lot of things they don't understand and then they get big and snappy and then they get rid of them. Is no very clever. I saw some fish they said started out being bought for home fishtanks, but now they're BIGGER THAN MY HEAD. Do not buy snappy things bigger than your head. REally. They're bigger than fish tanks. Is no a good idea to buy them.
... oh and I forgot to tell anyone about the typo. It said the fish get 'to big' not 'too big'. I should tell or it'll bug me.
The signs also said before you buy any fish try getting information from three different reputable sources. Impulse buying stuff is not so much the good idea.
(seriously, REALLY BIG fish. Of bigness. And very many snappy terrapins.)
The souvenir shop does not sell fishes. It sells adopt-a-fish packs instead.