Against The Storm(And Chinese)

Sorry if I kept you all waiting,but yeah,I suppose some of you know about Cyclone Hamish lurking around(it's almost gone now) on Tuesday.We had our bio excursion and it was HEADING RIGHT INTO THE STORM.Can you believe it?Nuts!!The cyclone could have head straight towrds us at anytime.Fortunately we were about 250-300 km away but still....WHOOOOOOSH!

Our excursion took us to Mooloolaba Underwater World.It's not really that big as the Australia Zoo or the one in Singapore,but it still is a beauty.There are so many fine specimens there.There's even a glowing fish,lungfish,sawfish(yep,doesn't cut down trees though),a tunnel which contains soooo many different fishes,rays(which occasionally give us their belly) and.........SSSSSSHHHHHHHAAAARRRRRKKKKKSSSS!!!!(We're gonna need a bigger boat Zzzzz)We had an assignment to do there,which is using the dichotomous key on the shatrk you pick to determine what shark is it.Simple,isn't it?Well,if you know what shark it is.....Leopard,Wobblegong,Grey Nurses,Mako(Sorry Jaws fans,no great whites here..)

There was also a time for a little show which involves sea lions.And boy,are they playful!!At the start of the show,the host was calling out for one of the sea lions for a few times.Unfortunately the animal didn't appear,so he went to the back and check(apparently it was a trained act).As he was away,out comes the bugger from the water,opens up the box,and munches the food.The guy comes back out,and thinks nothing happened....until he checked the box...hehe....

Basically the seals were told to do special tricks like handstand,contortion(that puts me to shame),wave hands and also do the 'pai seh' face XD.HONTONI KAWAII DESHI!!There was young lucky audience member who got to feed one of the seals.It was awesome to see the seal do a high jump(I'm in even more shame now XD).But the funny part was somehow the audience slipped and fell into the pool.Luckily,she could swim,and so the host told her to swim to an island in the middle of the pool....And OUT COMES A SHARK!!(IT's not a trained one).Nah kidding,it's actually a seal swimming around with the Jaws soundtrack playing XD.And out pops the seal,with something in it's mouth.....A PAIR OF SHORTS!!!Ahem,talk about a naughty seal haha...

Like every placeof interest there's bound to be a souvenir shop,but I won't tell you what I bought XD...You guess haha