TWO OCEANS AQUARIUM

Description

Essentials about the Two Oceans Aquarium in brief

If you don’t have any diving skills, but still want to know what it looks like underwater in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans just outside Cape Town, you should definitely pay a visit to the Two Oceans Aquarium. The aquarium takes its name from the meeting of the two oceans at the southwestern tip of South Africa.

The fish and marine life in the Two Oceans Aquarium

The Two Oceans Aquarium is easily accessible in Cape Town’s historic waterfront district on the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. Opened in 1995, the aquarium displays about 300 species of fish from the two oceans as well as invertebrates such as jellyfish, mussels, snails and crabs in more than 30 tanks. In the Atlantic Ocean Gallery, visitors can discover the underwater world of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cape Town and observe unique animals such as the Knysna seahorse and giant spider crabs.

The Indian Ocean Gallery is home to the inhabitants of the Indian Ocean, first and foremost, of course, the most famous fish in the history of cinema – the clownfish. The Penguin Exhibit, home to a colony of African penguins, is also very popular. It also displays the different habitats of a river in the Cape region.

The two main attractions of the aquarium, however, are the two million liter Open Ocean Tank, where sharks and rays make their rounds, and the Living Help Forest, a kelp forest that reflects the underwater world on the coast.