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SeaLife plans to spend £1.5 Million on its network of Sealife centres and Sealife Sanctuary centres, with spectacular new attractions in time for Easter 2008. For instance, a Pirates of The Caribbean-style wreck of Jack’s galleon, Queen Anne’s Revenge, is rolled at Blackpool. There are plans for an encounter with a giant squid at Brighton and Great Yarmouth gets the world’s biggest land crab, the Robber Crab. Meantime, Loch Lomond expands its 200,000 litre tanks’ population beyond 1000 specimens and, a couple of hours’ drive to the north-west, its sister family attraction at Oban, the Scottish SeaLife Sanctuary, focuses on seal rescue with a new interpretation and talks programme, highlighting its achievements in the field for over 25 years. Meantime, the busiest seal rescue centre in the UK, The National Seal Sanctuary at Gweek, in the beautiful West Country heartland of Cornwall, undertakes the refurbishment of a pool to create a naturalistic Sea Lion Lagoon, complete with waterfall. Finally, the Hunstanton SeaLife Sanctuary in Norfolk unveils a gigantic statue of Cleito, wife of the Greek god of the seas, Poseidon. Cleito’s immersion in the Sanctuary’s shark tank makes it a stunning feature and as impressive as anything in the network of SeaLife centres, ensuring that all of the Sealife Sanctuary sites retain their appeal as a fine family day out.
The National Seal Sanctuary wants to hear from salty sea dogs who have a true maritime tale to tell and has a £150 prize for the best. Either eye-witness testimony or some other form of proof behind the tale is a requirement of entry, and the winner is submitted for judging with tales from nine other UK Sealife family attractions for a special national award of £500. The closing date for entries is Monday 31st March 2008 and there are free Sealife Sanctuary Cornwall tickets for 12 runners-up.
Fishy tales and spun yarns should be sent via mark.oakley@merlinentertainments.biz.