As some of you may already know my Grandmother (my dad's mom, Grandma Carol) just came for a visit. She was our very first visitor here in Okinawa. And, we had loads of fun!
One of the places we went while she was here was the Churaumi Aquarium. It was all of the Price Kidz first time going to any aquarium.
The aquarium is a part of the Ocean Expo Park located in Motobu, Okinawa. The aquarium is made up of four floors, with tanks containing deep sea creatures, sharks, coral and tropical fish. The aquarium is set on 19,000 m² of land, with a total of 77 tanks containing 10,000 m³ of water. Water for the saltwater exhibits is pumped into the aquarium from a source 350m offshore, 24 hours a day (I got that from Wiki-pedia).
"Churaumi" means graceful or beautiful ocean. "Chura" (pronounced chew-rah") means graceful or beautiful and "umi" (oo-me) means ocean. It was so cool to see all the wild life there but, sad to see them not in there natural environment. I'm attaching a link to this entry for the slide show. We also got a new camera from Grandma Carol. So there will be plenty of pictures now!
Here is the link. I would suggest changing the seconds to 6. And change the zoom level on your computer to 100%.
https://picasaweb.google.com/vincentprice74/October282011#slideshow/5668376632144045602
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