San Remo Aquarium.

While at San Remo recently, I walked out onto the Jetty and came back alongside the San Remo Aquarium. Well at least that’s what it claimed to be, but it is now just a fish and chip shop.

Oh yes there is still a large Aquarium in the window but it had a large sign saying the fish tank were empty due to Stage 4 Water restrictions there.

Despite the fact that that I think that was an easy excuse to explain that that part of the business has closed down, I thought that even if true, it shows a certain lack of thinking at the pre-planning stage. A simple case of not using what is readily available and using a more expensive base material.

This now empty aquarium stands no further than 30 to 40 metres from the water’s edge right on the land end of the pier at San Remo. Water a plenty for the taking!

Sure it is salt water and therefore any fish put in it would have to be of the salt-water kind. And even if they wanted to display tropical fish (not native to the Cold Victorian waters), they only have to add a heater or two to get the required temperature. (Talking of tropical Fish, I need to check mine again after our break away.)

The thing is that if the people at San Remo Aquarium really wanted fish in their tank in a time of drought, there at the Jetty they would always have no real problems in getting it fresh whenever they wanted it. Simply by using what is freely and readily available locally (sea Water) and maybe a little of extra muscle (Carrying the water from the pier) and perhaps some outside help (a Heater). With a combination of that and maybe one or two others, they could still have as many fish as their aquarium could healthily hold.

But what about us? Do we too sometimes fail because we try too hard? Do we try the expensive when the common is at hand? Do we really try in the first place, but simply “give it a shot” and then use the first excuse at hand to walk away? Sometimes in the past I too have done this! Which I guess is what makes me much more careful now. And to a large degree that is what all of us should do. Be careful first! By all means try new things and try your dreams but do more due diligence first and take more care to start with and consider all the options and even prepare for the possible problems that may occur before they occur.

So in conclusion, how is your Aquarium going? Empty or full? Or like mine, in need of topping up today? Take care. Walter