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Otters, Sea Life Centre, weymouth, Dorset, Marine Aquarium

Sea Life Centre

Attraction:

Sea Life Centre

 

ADDRESS:

Lodmoor Country Park

Weymouth

Dorset

DT4 7SX

 

Tel: 01305 761070

 

E-mail: slcweymouth@merlinentertainments.biz

 

Web: www.sealifeeurope.com

 

Attraction Type: Marine aquarium and fun park!

Weymouth Sea Life Centre is a truly great attraction and combines learning about the sea and its creatures with lots and lots of fun!

 

Come face to face with seals, turtles, sharks, all sorts of fish and, perhaps the most enigmatic and graceful creatures of them all - seahorses!

 

Kids and adults will find something here to enthral them.  Wander through a range of different marine environments and marvel at the strange and mysterious creatures which live in and around our shores and the oceans of the World.

 

In a world where wildlife TV like the “Blue Planet” has brought the wonders of the deep into our front rooms, the Sea Life Centre still has the ability to amaze.  Even with “interactive” TV, you can’t truly interact with the animals on your screen, whether you press the red button or not!  But go below in the seal area and place your hand against the glass.  Watch seals swim up to “touch” you.  Move your hand in a circle, and these playful creatures will perform an amazing underwater ballet just for you!

 

There’s more excitement to be had watching penguins, playful otters and turtles.  

 

An unexpected highlight for any visitor is a trip to the Rays.  Kids keep going back for more of these inquisitive, sleek and surprisingly beautiful animals. Watch as they lift their noses and wings out of the water, as if inviting you to touch them - but make sure you don’t! The oil on your skin is damaging to their skins and can give them all sorts of problems. So tempting as it may be, the rule is “look but don’t touch”.

 

It may not be easy during the busiest of visits, but the Sea Life Centre, as well as being a place of excitement, is also a source of great tranquility.

 

Find a seat beside one of the huge aquaria of colourful fish and just relax as they float effortlessly and gracefully before you.  Believe it or not, even the sharks, gliding majestically and seemingly effortlessly through the water, will bring a new meaning to the phrase “deep relaxation”.

 

Perhaps the most relaxing of all is the seahorse aquarium.  These strange animals have an other-worldly appearance and behaviour to match.

 

There’s so much to see, that you may not even find time to make full use of the play area, childrens’ rides and splash pool.  But if you’re going in the summer and you’re going to make a day of it, don’t forget to take the kids swimming togs and towels!

 

You never know, you may even find Nemo!

A magnificent Leaf Dragon Seahorse one of several at the Weymouth Sea Life Centre marine aquarium
Sea Horses - graceful and mysterious inhabitants of the deep and Weymouth Sea Life Centre!
Come face to face with real turtles and other underwater wonders at the Weymouth Sea Life Park
Get up close with an anemone at Weymouth Sea Life Centre
Finding Nemo? A clown fish at the Weymouth Sea Life Centre Marine aquarium
Enjoy the beauty of the deep. One of many fascinating aquaria at the Sea Life Centre in Weymouth
Corals and reef plants at the Weymouth Sea Life Centre marine aquarium
Not Jaws - but definitely a shark in Weymouth Sea Life Centre's walk-through underwater aquarium
Turtles playing amongst the bubbles at the Sea Life Centre at Weymouth
Dog fish in the "Bay of Rays" at the Sea Life Centre