Pinguins in town !

Photo: The pink thing on the left is actually a very fancy fish :-) :-)

Photo: Cleaning of the windows of the Ian Potter arts centre (what's in a name) must not be that easy, give me the Glassex spray !

Photo: Cute pinguin chick looking angry to my camera flash ;-o

Hello everybody, thanks for your funny comments :-).Today was not the best day to go to the aquarium... apparently it was a school holiday, so the place was crowded with hundreds of screaming, yelling and running little children *zucht*. The aquarium houses some very nice awkward fishes, but is not that great as the one in Sydney. It is a bit old and tacky and it could use a lift. Also it was quite expensive, about 28 dollars. Anyway, it is quite cold today here, some 10 degrees but that is good to adapt to the weather when I will be back in BE and NL :-)

In the afternoon I visit the art galleries of the Ian Potter centre in the Federation Square. There is some fine art, but the real great thing is the building itself. I would not like to clean this windows :-)

Then weather clears out a bit in the afternoon. Indeed Melbie has four seasons in just one day. I take a quick walk in the botanical gardens. They close at 6pm and it is already 5pm when I arrive there. The gardens are lovely but again the Sydney counterpart is nicer I think.

Because it is close to sun set, I decide to go back to St Kilda quay. Jurg told me that after sunset, there is a whole colony of pinguins which is living overthere, and the chicks come out then. I had to wait for about an hour in the dark, but indeed eventually they started to make a lot of noise, and came out of their hideabouts. They are very cute and although I had no idea of pointing my camera in the dark, I was able to shoot some nice pictures of them... sorry pinguins for the flashes :-0

I had also to explain to a gentlemen in a suit that actually he was looking at a waterrat instead of a pinguin, though he found it cute as well .... laugh