Fish fans will cherish this impressive aquarium,overlooking the city’s estuary and domestic to 3500 creatures, including a little colony of cute Gentoo penguinsIt calls itself the world’s first submarium”, and but that’s a made-up word. It is,in fact, a huge and very impressive charitable public aquarium, or in a landmark building on the point where the Hull and Humber rivers meet. Sections such as Endless Ocean and Amazon Flooded Forest are domestic to 3500 sea creatures,including seven kinds of shark. Touchpool sessions throughout the day are led by engaging keepers happy to talk about crab poo and similar savoury topics. The Lagoon of Light exhibit is closed for refurbishment until February (as fragment of the general sprucing up for City of Culture year) but there’s plenty more to see – with possibly less of a crowd.
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Source: theguardian.com