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It was World Oceans Week and there was a special discount of 10% off admissions for wearing <em>blue<\/em>. When we walked in, we got our photo taken and could choose to buy the souvenir photo later (the problem is, standing in front of a <em>blue<\/em> scree while wearing blue is that part of me disappeared&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3296 aligncenter\" title=\"aqua01\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua01.jpg 452w, https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua01-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Aquarium entrance. The aquarium is located inside of Stanley Park, there was concession stands outside (and inside) of the aquarium, as well as someone making balloon animals. This beautiful structure is the focal piece of the fountain in front of the entrance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3296 aligncenter\" title=\"aqua02\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are tanks and tanks full of different fish. They tend to keep groups of fish together that aren&#8217;t going to eat one another (for obvious reasons). These bright blue fish are ones that are commonly found in pet stores, but they&#8217;re just so charming (and bright!).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3296 aligncenter\" title=\"aqua03\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These dull and glum looking fish are piranhas. I expected them to have mouthfuls of visible teeth or something! According to the sign next to their tank, piranhas are unlikely to kill their prey. Instead, they&#8217;ll pick out bits and pieces of them (like fins, parts of tails).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3296 aligncenter\" title=\"aqua04\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A parrot in an aquarium? The aquarium has a whole section dedicated to fish (and animals) of the Amazon. This pretty bird preened itself in front of an audience of young kids that were catcalling to it to try to get it to talk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3296 aligncenter\" title=\"aqua05\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I nearly missed this one until I was looking up because a leaf fell near my head. This is a sloth! I&#8217;m not sure if it was three or five toed, but it&#8217;s a sloth nonetheless. It was very sleepy-looking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3296 aligncenter\" title=\"aqua06\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caiman crocodile&#8230; My, what big teeth you have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3296 aligncenter\" title=\"aqua07\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sea urchins (the balls of spikes) &#8211; what not a lot of people know is that they&#8217;re actually closely related to sea stars\/star fish, sea cucumbers and brittle stars. They&#8217;re fully capable of moving, albeit at a slow place. The fish in the tank with them are an endangered species &#8211; I wish I could remember their name! The sign stated that the fish only exist naturally in one small part in the Indian Ocean, I believe. It used to be that people would capture up to a million of them <em>every year<\/em> for selling for people&#8217;s aquariums at home. The babies of the fish that are bred from this species (at the aquarium I went to yesterday) are sent to other aquariums with fish breeding programs to help conserve the species.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3296 aligncenter\" title=\"aqua08\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sea dragon with some very awesome camouflage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3296 aligncenter\" title=\"aqua09\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sea horses that are tangled up together &#8211; they had a little game of tug-a-war with their tails!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3296 aligncenter\" title=\"aqua10\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hey look, I found Nemo, Merlin and Dory, all in one tank together!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3296 aligncenter\" title=\"aqua11\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aqua11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The underside of a Sunflower Starfish! They can grow up to a metre in diametre and are pretty vicious predators. This one was about 60cm in diametre, so getting up there in size! I love all the little arms that they have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part 1 of my aquarium adventures! Only because I took an absurd amount of photos (well over 300 photos and 3 videos!) and I managed to whittled down the number that I wanted to share to 22 and that still felt like a lot to me for one post, so I figured since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,14],"tags":[26,28,36,48,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}