Winter returned today - it snowed overnight - but Sprout and I decided to take advantage of his p.d. day to go on a field trip anyway. We drove up the E6 and over to the coast to visit an aquarium - Havets Hus or House of the Sea. (Hav - sea, et - the, s- possessive, hus - house)Havets Hus is an indoor aquarium. All the water in the tanks is pumped in directly from the sea, so it was cold in there. Water temperature is currently about 3C. We pretty much had the plaice (ha!) to ourselves. (You could say we went just for the halibut! ha!) We were up close and personal with starfish and halibut, dogfish, wolf fish, sea urchins and stingrays, eels and small sharks. The photo is of the touch tank - you are invited to reach in and touch the critters. I reached in and touched a starfish and it was the most disgusting thing I think I've ever felt in my life. Sort of mushy. Just gross (but I'm sure his mother loves him). Andrew was willing to be the touchy-feely guinea pig for everything - crabs, sea anemones, starfish, mussels. He thought they were all kinda soft. His hand got really cold though. It just so happened that we were there for feeding time in the tunnel. You walk through / under the tunnel while the diver is in the tank with a bag of herring she is hand-feeding to the fish (halibut and some bigger ones too). That was very entertaining, seeing the fish snatch lunch, then watching it disappear bite by bite.
Speaking of bite, what would a day out be without lunch? The café attached to Havets Hus was serving fish (isn't that cannibalism?), so Sprout opted to look elsewhere, and we ended up with pizza (totally fish friendly). We took a different (shorter) road back, and had to take a ferry to cross the fjord. Cool!
A grand day out.
http://www.havetshus.se/index.asp?selectedLang=en
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