Crete Aquarium

Back and forth on the main road we'd seen the signs for Crete Aquarium, so after a stop at Malia palace, we went. It was on the site of an old air station. It was good size, we spent a few hours there, had a good variety of fish and marine invertebrates, and had some fairly big tanks. We paid €8 each and got the audio guide. There's labels to get the fish names in different languages. There were some tropical fish, but what I liked most was that the great majority were Mediterranean.

Though it got very crowded, it wasn't as noisy and uncomfortable as our last trip to the Plymouth Marine Aquarium - oh, that was just bad timing and French schoolkids (even their teacher had had enough and had to duck out for a gitane), and - here we go - kids manically running up and down shouting NEMO! Well I 'suppose' they're having fun and learning and all that,.. perhaps. Anyway, I didn't hear the 'N' word and once and in the intervals between the big groups it was quite nice. There was a film about a turtle that got saved after swallowing fishing gear (including a hook), and plastic bags; and various other displays. We got some reasonable pictures of the slower moving animals, and around some of the bigger tanks you can just sit and watch the fish.