It was a cruddy Saturday and so what better thing to do than visit the Vancouver Aquarium and spend some time in the Amazon. Beats hanging out in the drizzle.
In 2004, just weeks after defencing my PhD thesis I had the good fortune to travel to Brazil for a conference and a subsequent boat trip up the Amazon above Manaus. We feasted on fish the likes of which we had only seen in aquariums. One of these was a fish called the Arapaima, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish. The scales are 2-3″ in diameter and used for everything from decoration to nail files. I ended up buying about 50 and bringing them home for display in a bowl. But it is still awe inspiring to stand and view this fish in a living state…it really does seem to be a remnant from the past.
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