... of spiders, amphibians and aquatic creatures

Tamera's sister visited KL with her husband sometime late October 2006 and I was temporarily recruited as a tour guide. Well, to be more precise, I was one part tour guide, four parts chauffeur. One of the places we took them to was the Aquaria in KLCC. I was quite happy because I've not been there myself, and I finally had a reason to use my not so trusty Vivitar digital camera for something other than work.

Not supposed to flash, but accidentally left it on. Must've scared the bejeezus outta this poor fella.


Can't remember what toad this was, but check out its size! I left a 50 sen coin beside it for comparison.


I like this picture. Kinda sad that this Iguana had many spotlights right above it. Good for the camera though!


This tarantula is unique to Malaysia. They had a whole collection of tarantulas unique to our jungles! I'm suddenly thinking twice about camping again. Focus is really bad because my Vivitar was deciding whether to focus on the glass or on the web, but not on the spider itself.


I really had to take this picture. Very reminiscence of National Geographic red eyed tree frog, except that it's not a red eyed tree frog.


Wassup, turtle dude!



There were many other photo opportunities and moments but my batteries decided to die out on me. That's their way of telling me that I forgot to feed them the night before. I saw some two meter sharks, a couple of remoras under one such shark, a baby kangaroo (yeah I know, I was wondering why was there a kangaroo in a place called 'Aquaria' too), several small nautilus (nautili? nautiluses?), sea dragons (they looked a little like spiny, spiky sea horses) and many other aquatic life that I can't remember at the moment.

No moral of the story, no funny or fabricated stories and no humour to this post, just wanted to put the pictures up.

I just realized that I have to spell 'humour' according to the British dictionary and 'enter' according to the American. 'Humor' and 'entre' just felt wrong to me :/