21 september 2017

Kijkduin sea aquarium

From the eight vaults inside Fortress Kijkduin (see also yesterday's post), two are now set up as a sea aquarium. Being there it was so hard to imagine that once soldiers resided here, that there was a shooting gallery, a gun powder room, and everything that was needed in a war..

Visitors walk through a 12 m long underwater tunnel, which was really wonderful. The aquarium, which opened in 1996, is entirely focused on life in the North Sea, so all fish are "local".

14 opmerkingen:

  1. This is amazing and what a wonderful use for the old war tunnels!

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  2. Wat een mooie tunnel om doorheen te gaan!

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  3. We have an aquarium here in Toronto with a tunnel like that one; very impressive. It is the Ripley's Aquarium located just southeast of the CN Tower.

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  4. Incredible and supremely beautiful and I would probably go a little nuts being slightly claustrophobic! :) But I'd certainly want to share in this sublime place so I probably walk the rails.

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  5. I love this, it must be incredible to walk through and see all the fish.

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  6. It is so wonderful to see ocean life from this point of view.

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  7. Very interesting place...also useful to remind people how crazy a war is!

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  8. Wow! What a fantastic use of the space! AQA, our aquarium, is one of my favourite places to visit.. super shots Marleen, it wouldn't be so easy down there!

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  9. Wauuu ... it is fantastic to walk under water and fish.

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  10. It's amazing experiance to be on tunnel like that. Nice shots.

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