Roll up your sleeves and get in touch with a sea star

Get your hands wet in our interactive touch pool display. See and touch an array of marine life that can be found in local tide pools, including beautiful sea stars, sea cucumbers and much more. Tidal Touchpool offers an interactive experience, where our expert education team are on hand to teach you all about the wonders of marine life.

Some creatures you will meet here

The blue sea star has a bright blue or light blue body. The animals get their colour from a blue pigment called linckiacyanin and some accessory yellow carotenoids.

Thorny sea stars are a species of sea star found in the Indo Pacific regions. They have rows of spikes or 'horns' on their backs hence their name Thorny!

This species of sea urchin gets it name from its thick spines that look a bit like pencils. These sea urchins can be found all along the coast and around rock pools.

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Price includes a Digi Photo Pass with 8 digital photos – valued at $26!
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