The Waterfront’s best attraction is its excellent aquarium. It features denizens of the deep from both the cold and the warm oceans that border the Cape Peninsula, including great white sharks. There are seals, penguins, an astounding kelp forest, and pools in which kids can touch sea creatures; these things alone are worth the entry fee.

Qualified divers can get into the tank – sharing it with five ragged-tooth sharks, a 150kg stingray, other predatory fish and two delightful turtles wouldn’t be everyone’s idea of fun, but for experienced divers (certificate required) this is a great way to get really close to the ocean action.

Kelp Forest
The Kelp Forests are very different from the other habitats. The kelp forest is a forest, but it is not a forest of trees. It is made of seaweed called giant kelp. Giant kelp grows in cool coastal waters where sunlight can go down to a rocky sea floor.
Kelp needs sunlight in order to grow. It also needs a hard surface to grow on. Kelp consists of at least three parts: the holdfast, stipe, and blade. The holdfast is a part that attaches the kelp to the ocean floor. The blade is the leaflike part that takes in sunlight to make food. The stipe is the part that connects the holdfast to the blade.

Giant kelp is one of the world's fastest growing plants. It can grow as much as 300 feet in a single year. When the tops reach the surface, they keep on growing to form a floating mat. The kelp forest provides shelter and protection for many animals. Like a forest on land, a kelp forest is full of life.