Darling Harbour and the Aquarium

On Sunday we ventured out to the Sydney Aquarium at Darling Harbour. Although we have been to Darling Harbour on several occasions, we hadn't made it to the aquarium here yet. It was great and I can't wait to go back. Here are some pics from our day...

The first one is of a diver in one of the tanks... I thought it was pretty cool that the tank was so deep that a diver had to go down into it to do whatever it was he had to do... I'm sure he didn't have to dive to go in, but clearly needed to stay underwater long enough to use an oxegen tank. Sorry, I missed the earlier demonstration as to what he was down there for!

Shark!!!

We found Nemo in the Great Barrier Reef tank!!

Man, it is hard to capture pictures of fast moving fish!! Especially when you're busy making sure your 3 year old isn't so far ahead of you that you can't see him. Here is a pic of a fish head on...

Blurry Nemo in the reef

Here's a platypus

Saltwater crocodile... I had to take his picture and also wonder who the heck handles this animal. If you don't know anything about a saltwater crocodile (I didn't before moving here) then google the thing and you'll be appalled at how dangerous this animal can be.

There is one part of the aquarium where you're actually walking over glass with fish swimming underneath... Anna wasn't too sure about this at all and Nonna had to help her out!!

Brady had to get back into the pram after too many times of him running off ahead of us... here he's saying he wants to get out.

Anna LOVED the fish... this was only her second trip to an aquarium, the first being in Melbourne in April when she was only 12 months old, so she was really intrigued this time around.

"I want a cookie"... Anna's first sentence spoken a couple weeks ago and here she is getting her wish...

After leaving the aquarium we wandered around Darling Harbour and grabbed some lunch before heading off to the play area. Here are a couple shots of Darling Harbour:

Here we are at the playground at Darling Harbour... Anna was enjoying the sand pit until I decided to take her picture.

Nonna helps Anna out with her very first "big girl" carousel ride

Brady loved it too, but was too curious about what was going on outside to look at the camera

That's all for Sunday, August 24th... Happy "real" birthday, baby boy!!