My London experience: Natural History Museum and Aquarium
Posted August 26th, 2011 at 06:29 PM by Solidaire
Updated August 27th, 2011 at 08:13 AM by Solidaire
Updated August 27th, 2011 at 08:13 AM by Solidaire
Tags aquarium, london, museum, natural history
There is an extensive collection of minerals, ore deposits, valuable and semi-valuable stones in the Natural history Museum. There are even asteroid pieces, rocks from Mars and from the Moon.
Here is a Uranium deposits from Cornwall, where the mineral was mined from 1873 to 1903.
http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/mi...uth-terras.htm
The deposit is properly encased to prevent any radiation from creeping through. Not a beautiful specimen, but impressive nonetheless. And kind of scary...
The skull of a killer bird, once the top predator of South America.
Sabre tooth skull.
Do you think the above creature was menacing? Here's our beloved T-Rex.
...and his living cousin, unleashed at closing time, to help empty the museum from reluctant to leave visitors.
He had to chase me around for a while...time to leave.
The most serene, relaxing place in London was its Aquarium. Right next to the Eye, its tanks are filled with amazing sea creatures of all kinds. From giant sea turtles and rays, to surprisingly friendly skates and menacing sharks. Piranhas, crocodiles, and cute penguins were also included.
The sharks in particular were so mesmerising that we just stood there and watched them... I had to tell my wife that the last person to leave was thrown into the tanks, to get her off the spectacle.
There are squirrels running freely in Hyde Park, probably resting from a day's shopping at close-by Oxford street, just like the rest of the Londoners.
On the day of our departure, this little fellow greeted us goodbye. We promised him we will return...
Here is a Uranium deposits from Cornwall, where the mineral was mined from 1873 to 1903.
http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/mi...uth-terras.htm
The deposit is properly encased to prevent any radiation from creeping through. Not a beautiful specimen, but impressive nonetheless. And kind of scary...
The skull of a killer bird, once the top predator of South America.
Sabre tooth skull.
Do you think the above creature was menacing? Here's our beloved T-Rex.
...and his living cousin, unleashed at closing time, to help empty the museum from reluctant to leave visitors.
He had to chase me around for a while...time to leave.
The most serene, relaxing place in London was its Aquarium. Right next to the Eye, its tanks are filled with amazing sea creatures of all kinds. From giant sea turtles and rays, to surprisingly friendly skates and menacing sharks. Piranhas, crocodiles, and cute penguins were also included.
The sharks in particular were so mesmerising that we just stood there and watched them... I had to tell my wife that the last person to leave was thrown into the tanks, to get her off the spectacle.
There are squirrels running freely in Hyde Park, probably resting from a day's shopping at close-by Oxford street, just like the rest of the Londoners.
On the day of our departure, this little fellow greeted us goodbye. We promised him we will return...
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Nice photo's. We went to the London aquarium, but Melbourne has a brand new aquarium so thought the London one was a little old looking. But it could have changed a bit in 8 years!
Squirrels were great fun. My girls just could not get over how many of them were on the London parks. Also has a family of them living in the trees in the yard of our accommodation in 2008. Cute!Posted August 27th, 2011 at 08:39 PM by Tudor chick
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Great photos , mate
Posted August 29th, 2011 at 10:54 AM by Mohammed the Persian
