Zippy and Bucky - our favourite dolphins!

Off to the Pet Porpoise Pool this morning to see our favourite dolphins in the world AGAIN!!!!!

But first, we stopped in for a kiss from Abby the seal.

And then a kiss from Zippy, Bucky was looking on as his son did all the hard work!


James, and then Matty and Lucy fed Cindy a fish for breakfast.



And then we sat back to enjoy the show...









So we've used our money's worth to justify our annual passes. It's a really great place if you can afford to just spend some time interacting and hanging out with the animals when the show isn't on.

Some of our favourite moments were:
- walking past the seal enclosures where the seals dive out of the water and skid across their platforms before diving back in to their pools and frolicking around.

- after the presentations and after the novelty wears off for the majority of watching a dolphin swim past you along the edge of the pool there is the opportunity to quietly connect and play ball with the amazing dolphins. They contentedly pass a footy back and forth to their fans, so eager to play, and so happy to do the same thing over and over again until the fan loses interest. So special!

- and standing at the windows under the aquarium watching the Port Jackson Sharks and huge huge fish like the Cod! (It's not from the same place but check out an image of what the Cod looks like here.) There's something so graceful and majestic about fish swimming whether it's in a 20litre tank or on a much much grander scale!!!! The kids were mesmerised and could have spent hours there. I thought the fishy stench was too much so was happy to encourage them to explore the rest of the park!!!!

At the end of our visit today, as a special treat from Nanna, Grandpa and Jacqui, the kids were given a coin purse full of gold coins to spend at the souvenir shop... No surprises what they chose. And no surprises they haven't put them down since!


Lucy calls hers "Buckyzippy"


James is convinced his is "Zippy" and he reenacts the show almost perfectly, with Zippy's double somersaults and tail fluke walking, finishing off with a tail fluke wave to say goodbye.

And, after a big day the kids convinced Grandpa to have a 'tend sleep with them and their dolpins on the family room floor.