Galway Atlantaquaria
Native-species aquarium with a fin whale skeleton, ray touch pool and an ancient fishing canoe.
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This guide to Galway Atlantaquaria in Salthill sets aside the sharks for a hollowed-out log: a fishing canoe two brothers found on the shore near Bearna in two thousand two. It reaches back to the drowned forest that storms uncover along this coast, and forward to the staff who feed and tend the tanks today. Start near the canoe on the route after the whale skeleton upstairs.
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