Ava Finds Nemo At The Sea Life Centre

We hope you've been enjoying your summer holiday. Here at Show Me we love hearing from our readers about the cool places they've visited, so we were very excited when we got a letter AND a brilliant piece of artwork to go with it...

Show Me reader Ava, who is seven, read our news story Looking For Nemo At The New Horniman Aquarium.

Ava has been to an aquarium too - the Sea Life Centre in Brighton - so she wrote in to Show Me to tell us all about it.

She also did this great picture of her visit. Click here to see a larger version of it.

Over to you, Ava:

"I went to the Sea Life Centre with my cousin Katherine and my grandma Hazel.

When we got there we saw some catfish and BIG eels. There was a tank which had some fish from Finding Nemo.

(Here's a picture of the Nemo who lives in the aquarium in the Horniman Museum. Nemo's real name is Clown Anemone Fish.)

There was some sea turtles and this tank that had lots of fish that looked the same and one tank had a water wheel.

On the glass wall of the tank there was a circle that had black edges and on the inside of the circle it was a different kind of glass and if you looked through the fish in the tank would look BIGGER.

We went to the shark section where the fish and the giant turtle and the shark were.

We passed some other fishes on the way and we looked from the bridge then we went in the tunnel where you you see the fish above you.

Then we found a cage thingy. If you looked you could see a fake shark.

Then we went to the cafe. My grandma had strawberry ice-cream and me and my friend had chocolate ice-cream.

Then we went to watch people doing feeding and this woman talked for quite a long time.

People who paid £1 could feed the fish themselves and we saw the turtle being fed and his name was Charlie."

Thanks Ava! We LOVE your drawings.

If Ava's story has put you in the mood for some fishy fun, check out The Fish Olympics, from National Museums Liverpool, or take part in the Egg And Spawn Race from Planet Arkive.

Don't forget, we love hearing about the fun places you visit, and seeing the pictures you draw, so if you've been to an aquarium, or a museum or gallery - tell us all about it!