The great Churasan Aquarium

After all the praise we heard about the Okinawan aquarium with 2 whale sharks, it was still very wonderful to sit in front of the large tank for 1 hour.

Caught and eaten in Unkel

Deep sea water fish

Have you seen these deep sea (defined to be living 200m deep or more) water fish? They look like crazy jewelery on a high fashion lady.


Due to the absolute darkness, many can emit light themself. Some just don't have eyes and others just show its entire brain because there's no worries of being seen.

There is also a fish that once the male and female meet, they somehow get sucked onto each other, because it is so damn hard to meet one another in complete darkness.

I also saw a video of a flat fish that does not get cooked while it's emersing itself in 200 degrees of volcanic eruption in the water. How are we supposed to cook it and eat it if we ever have to?

As crazy as they sound, most of them really do look the part and not at all a lady's brooch...



Photo credit: National Geographic, etc.

Goldfish Street

I walked around HK's goldfish street (not a market from hell but almost, with so many people), which was a weird but somewhat artistic experience.

I used to have these (guppie). It was pretty common for elementary school kids to have them in Japan then. I was always able to tell the difference between male and female, but now I can't...

Lovely HK-style packaging.