How to walk with sharks and jellyfish?

More than a year passed since our last visit to Oceanográfic in Valencia(Spain). We passed by it a few months ago, just walked by it on the street but our real tour inside happened in April 2022 for the last time. It is a well-known place for families as the young ones like to see all those sea creatures we don't see normally.

Our friend is a marine biologist and works there, so we didn't have to buy the tickets. But that's not the most important thing. What was really interesting is that he showed us parts of the oceanarium that is closed to the public, where they work around the rescue and conservation of sea turtles, some fish species, sharks, dolphins and belugas. Many times he shows us videos of how they are healing dolphins or sharks, without fear. The work they are doing is incredible, also in the investigation and conservation of species that are in danger of extinction.

Yes, we can see there many different species but I guess this one is here just for decoration. Or education. Anyway, it also came here, through this photo. I made a lot of short videos during this walk, so many that had to select and omit at least half of them. I made one longer video out of the selection of short videos, and the background music is my recording of a piece, Le Onde, by Ludovico Einaudi. I recorded it already a year or two ago.

So, let's take a short walk. There are various levels and parts of this oceanarium. Also open and closed areas. The part with the tunnels is my favourite because you can see the turtles, sharks, and fish swimming, all together, above your head. It is incredible, you have the feeling you walk in those depths of the ocean while the sharks swim around you. Also, I mentioned to one Hiver today, if he needs a tunnel or a portal to arrive at the place his wife is currently vining, in Valencia, that I can help with that task. So here you are, @pumarte, maybe there is a tunnel under the ocean and you just have to walk and arrive here, in Oceanográfic. What do you think?

Maybe it would take a lot of time... If you are good at swimming you can choose that option, swim but please make sure you stay away from jellyfish. There were transparent, orange, pink, and white... but there is one common thing for all of them - they sting.

These were so nice. Small white ones.

And with how much grace this jellyfish swims. You can see it in the video.

The octopus was a cool one. They are very intelligent creatures actually, and are pretty good at camouflaging. They adapt their colour to their surroundings. Once we saw an octopus in the sea and it was changing its colour according to the colour of the stones where we were swimming and following us. As he followed us 😂

This octopus in Oceanográfic just came to greet us. Well, he can be also seen in the video ;)

A myriad of different types of fish that we were observing in different zones and aquariums of this complex in Valencia. If you come one day to this city, I can recommend visiting the whole complex City of Arts and Sciences and walking in the tunnels of Oceanográfic.

Raúl, is it you, hiding in this photo? Did you safely arrive? ;)
I do hope that at least you made this virtual visit to Valencia, but the real-life visit would be even better!