Langkawi Underwater World Part 2

Let's continue our journey in the Underwater World...

ropefish

kalui/giant gourami (the fish) with an Indonesian shortfinned eel (which unfortunately is hiding its head in a hole)

some pretty fish

we couldn't see the name of this thing clearly

the same "thing"

There was a worm or something moving in its mouth. Or was it its tongue, trying to attract food? I have no idea...

stingray moving very fast, they were hard to capture! But they were so beautiful...

look at that long tail...

more...

shark

some swimming around, some just lying on the bottom of the tank...resting, I guess

a HUGE stingray gliding above us (definitely measures more than a metre across)

with another one

a giant moray eel with lovely corals

not sure what this fish is, but it's huge too...

more corals

Some of the fish were swimming around so quickly that I couldn't get a photo...

Then we went out to a petting area. There were some fish swimming around in shallow water that we could touch, but I didn't touch any (nope, I'm not an animal-touching person :P )

an otter!

There were several of them running around in the petting area, but they were running around too fast for any of us to catch a photo of them, let alone touch them... Someone was feeding this one, which was why it was keeping still enough for us to snap photos of.

waiting expectantly for food

so cute...

they had a little enclosure too...which opens out into the garden (the petting area)

It was so hard to get photos of them since they moved so fast...I kept getting photos with their heads cut off because they would move away just as I pressed the button. -_-

Like this one:


And this one:


This one is better:


That's all for this post, I'll keep the rest for the next (and last) part!

Of Penang people and Geography

It would seem that Penang people are lousy at Geography.

The other day, someone asked me something about Kelantan. I said, I'm from Kuantan (because obviously he was thinking that I was from Kelantan...). Now it is quite common that people mishear Kuantan as Kelantan, but that wasn't the case this time, as he asked, isn't Kuantan in Kelantan? And when I told him that Kuantan was the capital of Pahang, and that the capital of Kelantan was Kota Bharu, he said, you aren't trying to trick me, are you? -_-

Then yesterday my brother told me that his friend (another Penangite!) asked him, you're from Pahang, right? Do you drive to and fro every day? *faint*

*Gets up from faint*

Even from the closest point of Pahang to Penang, it would take a 3-hour drive at least...or do you think we have a private jet? Or a helicopter? Yeah, I want a helicopter...

And today...we mentioned Perlis. Another Penangite asked, where is Perlis ah?

*faints again* Don't revive me this time...

Langkawi Underwater World Part 1

Yup, there are too many photos, so this shall be divided into parts.

At the entrance, before the ticket counter, we can see the largest freshwater fish in the world, the Arapaima.


That's the only thing we can see without paying. :P

After some other fish (like catfish), we go into a little area with birds (and huge fish tanks)

swans! (and is that a duck?)

a black swan!

not sure what bird this is, but it was strutting around...it was hard to get a photo!

a chicken? lol

huge fish swimming in a tank

fluffy ducklings!

a tortoise! (the image came out rotated, I'm not sure why...but it's not important so I won't re-upload it)

penguins!
These are African penguins (or blackfooted penguins)

We could go under the tank to see them swimming

feeding time...they were picking fish off the ground.

There were also rockhopper penguins.

This guy looks distinguished, doesn't he? :P

and this one stood this way for a long time...don't his arms get tired? lol

When they swim, they look totally different...because their brows are no longer sticking out!

Later on, for some reason a bunch of them gathered, posing for us. Haha...

Two birds...

...kissing! (or maybe just feeding? :P )

Then we have the tiny stuff.

camel shrimp (I think this looks like jewellery...)

anemone carpet

long spine sea urchin

cerianthus worm

rose starfish

pink cucumber

boxing shrimp

blue crayfish

red swamp crayfish

In the next instalment we will look at some huge fish for a change!