Our next stop in San Diego was Seaworld. My advice to any potential visitors who have travelled the world and seen zoos and aquaria - don't waste your time at San Diego Seaworld. The locals think that it's great, but that's because they haven't actually been anywhere else to see what could be done. First, Ellie wanted to go on a ride, so we queued for 45 minutes to go on the Shipwreck Reef Ride. We climbed into the raft, then they told us to get out as the ride was now closed. Bummer. So then we thought we'd see the much-hyped Shamu show of killer whales. We waited for half an hour, sat through lots of videos and a really shmaltzy 'story' about a boy who wanted to train killer whales, then we watched killer whales jump up and down for 15 minutes. Our verdict? Lame. When I'm in my black-and-white swimming costume and I leap out of the water, I look like a killer whale. Why would I pay to see another mammal do whay I could do for free?
Plenty of other zoos and aquaria worldwide have shows that are actually impressive, like the Singapore Zoo for example. The shark tunnel was short and much less interesting than Sydney's Darling Harbour Aquarium. The ocean aquarium seemed to imply that American sealife was somehow 'better' than other sealife. It was all very peculiar.
Finally, we decided to eat before we went home. We went to the pizza restaurant, knowing full-well that we would pay a week's salary for something very ordinary. What we didn't expect was that the pizza restaurant would only have one type of pizza available, the 'monthly special'. It was ham and pineapple. Sigh. We ate the monthly special, hereinafter to be referred to as the 'monthly extremely ordinary', and went home.
San Diego Seaworld? Give it a miss.
But for a totally different view of the day, see Ellie's blog
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