Today I went to the Melbourne Aquarium for the first time, to look at the new Monsters of the Deep exhibition and see the frozen Giant Squid, the incredible Architeuthis dux. I know my dad has been looking forward to this for a while (he does have a bit of a thing for squid), so we were both very excited when we arrived.

Before heading down to see the squid we prepared ourselves by making a squid hat - just a paper one, nothing as fancy as this fabulous hat. Then we went down, past the very pretty jellyfish (see more pics below), and into the squid’s lair.

The giant squid was pretty impressive, especially the way it stared out at you with its hideous and huge frozen eye. I brought along my own baby squid, and there definitely seemed to be a family resemblance.

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