Underwater Observatory

Welcome back, my dear friends! 

Today I will take you to the most popular place to visit in Eilat - the Underwater Observatory!

"If you haven't been to the Underwater Observatory Marine Park, you haven't been to Eilat" (Coral World)

Before visiting the underwater observatory, you should visit almost 10 other interesting sections on the territory of the park, such as sharks pool, turtles pool, aquarium with corals and different species of fish not only from the Red Sea, but from all over the world.
The most fascinating is the sharks pool (you can watch them both from side and from top). There are fixed hours when you can watch the personnel feeding them, which is very exciting.

 Next stop - the aquarium of corals that were brought to the park from the deepest parts of the Red Sea. The beauty of most of them can be observed only under the special light; for example, on the picture you can see that one of them needs a darkness to glow. Next to all the small widows there are signs with the description, so if anyone will be interested to read, you are more than welcomed. Some of the corals are located together with the species that they live with in underwater. The most curios is to find Chameleon-fish among the corals.

The facilities of the park also included the big pool of jellyfish. I did not know they can be so beautiful, I have seen them before in the sea, during the jellyfish season (which is June-July in Israel), and at that time they seemed to be the most unpleasant creatures. However, watching them behind the aquarium glass   in the darkness and under the special light of the water was the most memorable part of the journey. These creatures appear to be so gentle and fragile, that one even cannot imagine how harmful they can be to a human.  

The final destination - observatory. The observatory is a tower located in the middle of the sea, without any fences or cages, offering a rare view of the Red Sea, with its bright colors, tones, and the marine life in the Gulf of Eilat. 

The tower consists of two display halls. These halls are submerged at a depth of 12 meters under the sea, offering visitors a natural view of the coral reef's spectacular beauty through huge plate glass windows. (Coral World)

The visitors of the park have an incredible opportunity to watch the process of mining pearls. And this is for real, right in front of you the lady (who speaks both Russian and English) takes the closed shell from the small pool, explaining the process of how the pearls form and gently opens the it, and here we go - the real pearl that you can buy, if you wish. The pearls can be both white, black, light-pink, or off-white. The size of the pearl depends on its age. The one on the picture is six years old. 

This was all about the observatory, next stop - Kings City, the place worth to visit! 

Sincerely, 

Makhina