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May 27th 2013
Published: May 27th 2013
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The shark is behind me in this display
Hi Everyone it has been awhile since I have blogged we have been going on a lot of day trips in France which I will blog more about in future blogs. today I am going to blog about my visit to the Aquarium

I lot of what I am going to talk about is out of a book I have read about this Aquarium and my visit

I went to the Aquarium and it was amazing. This is the best Aquarium I have ever seen. You walk through a tunnel and there is water all around you with sea creatures inside. There were sharks , sting-rays, all different kinds of sea life in this tunnel.

The Aquarium opened in 1925 and has been visited by more than 12 million people. Expansion of the Aquarium was completed in 1998 and this included 1,800,000 litres of water tank pierced by a tunnel.

I spent almost three hours viewing model ships of Basque Fishing Boats and reading about how the Basque have made fishing one of the most important part of their life. I saw a skeleton of a complete whale hanging from the ceiling. I saw how the Basque
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Looking at the sea creatures
Fisherman fish in deep waters. The whole tour was amazing and I want to go again.

Till my next blog

Scarlett


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Skeleton of a whale behind me
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Model of a Basque Fishing Boat
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Beautiful
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Sting Ray over me in the tunnel
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Looking at the sea creatures with my Uncle Victor
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They let us gently touch the fish here
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Another model of a Basque Fishing Boat from long ago


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