Sea Paradise

Baba very kindly drove us all to Mito on the west coast of Izu to see the 'Sea Paradise' acquarium. This is famous for its dolphin and seal shows. As you can see here.



These dolphins are jumping 5m out of the water, which is also almost the length of a blue whale's head.


I noticed that the dolphins are paid in fish on a per trick basis. I would have expected them to be salaried, and they must get pretty hungry during the off-season.


Sea Paradise also had penguins and sea otters.


Which got me thinking that Dunedin needs something like this.


Flamingos and pengins. I imagine there are loud arguments over the air-con setting in this enclosure ("make it cooler please", "no, make it hotter", "no, cooler!"...).


We also took a boat trip out into Suruga Bay. The bay is a famous fro its view of Mt Fuji but unfortunately due to clouds we didn't see Mt Fuji at all this holiday, until the last Sunday when we unexpectedly saw it from Tokyo. But the boat trip was still very pleasant.