The Churaumi Aquarium

We visited the Churaumi Aquarium on Okinawa this week, who boasts the second largest tank in the world. We've added some pictures below. It was pretty impressive, lots of cool stuff there. Below you'll see garden eels; an incredibly painfully stinging jellyfish (these guys are all over in the summer months); the dolphin pool that the public can walk right up to (notice how close we are to the pool); the big tank; and two of the three whale sharks in the big tank. It was neat to see them, but most of the tanks seemed too small for the animals that were in them.


Below is a video of the whale sharks feeding. Unfortunately I missed all of the excitement when they started eating. It was something like witnessing a grand slam at Wrigley Field, but with much higher pitched voices than in America!