Huttons In Okinawa: Churaumi Aquarium

So we went to the Churaumi Aquarium this past weekend. It was a lot of fun - we saw a lot of cool stuff. All of the things we saw at the aquarium have been seen at one time or another in the oceans surrounding the island of Japan - can I say I can't wait to go diving!! So we drove to the aquarium it is about 1 1/2 hours from Kadena AFB - it was a very nice ride....beaches and we went through different cities on okinawa. If ever you come to Oki I would recommend the aquarium.

This is the entrance

They have Adventure Land - this is Logan inside what appeared to be a huge bee hive

They have these rope bridges for like a mile all around the little area - Logan was a little too scared to go any further than this right here - the ropes were really meant for a little older kids I think!

That mat that he is standing on is squishy, he liked that because he could bounce a little on it!

This is just a little entrance to a sitting area, it had the Shi-sa dogs in the entry way - I thought you might like to see how they have these things everywhere. Almost every single house has these in some form or another. Businesses have them, and retaurants too.

Daddy and Logan

Mommy and Logan

Boo-Boo being a sting ray

This view was really breathtaking, my camera doesn't do it justice. Behind Keith and Logan is the East China Sea - the water was aqua in color and clear as a piece of glass!

There is a little better view of the sea

Starfish in the touch pool

These two pictures are of the touch pool, right when you walk in the entrance. Logan would not touch anything inside the pool (LOL) I tried to get him to touch the sea cucumbers and starfish but he was not even going there

Nurse Shark - there were a lot of these on the floors of most of the big aquariums. That is the most common type of shark you will see when diving here - but I asked one of the guys and there are also tiger sharks and hammer heads on occasion! NO THANK YOU!!

Logan looking at a HUGE fish - he could not believe how big it was! Said fish is below!

Fish that I mentioned before - right here!

Ok this was a really big tank with really HUGE lobsters. These guys were ginormous!

Ok so this was a stone fish - I could not even tell it was a fish at first. Amazing

This picture does not show you how big this shell was that this crab was carrying around - trust me when I tell you it was a big house~

Sea horse

Ok this is the coolest part - there was this HUGE tank with whale sharks and manta rays and tons of sharks. This is the head of the whale shark

Manta Ray coming at me!

There he goes - these guys were the size of a VW bug! They were so big - I would LOVE to see one of them in the ocean!

There is the whale shark - so freakin cool!! There were 3 of these guys in there

Logan inside a Great White Shark mouth

They also had a dolphin show - they had a couple spotted dolphins, spinner dolphins and 3 False killer whales. They did a really good job - This is one of the false killer whales

Ok this thing sprays mist out - and the kids love it!! The following picture are of Logan playing! When we first came in the aquarium he wanted nothing to do with the misty thing - then on the way out we could not get him away from it. Not sure what changed his mind - but he loved it!!!