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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.
Work begins in February 2008 on refitting the current Sealife Sanctuary Hunstanton Seal Hospital and founding a new Seal Rescue Centre. The £50,000 project is designed to create better facilities and includes the inception of a Seal Rescue Academy, where visitors can learn about the five "R's" of Rescue, Recovery, Rehabilitation, Release and Retirement.
Hence, Sealife Sanctuary Hunstanton is expanding and will become an even greater family day out by the Easter holidays – just the ticket!