Beneath Auckland's Tamaki Drive, just 6km from downtown Auckland, lies a world-class experience and one of New Zealands best tourist attractions. Kelly Tarlton's is filled with a myriad of deep-sea creatures; it never fails to provide an entertaining, educational, and fascinating day out.

The $6 million dollar redevelopment Stingray Bay is a tantalising glimpse of these magnificent animals with their two-metre wingspan and long barbed tails. They can be viewed through a beautiful, massive acrylic 350,000 litre open-topped tank that will allow you to get up close and personal with these graceful, 'winged' sea creatures. 'Stingray Splash allows you to experience the gentle power and strength of these animals, by entering the pool, and swimming with the Stingrays themselves.

Kelly Tarlton's is home to very vibrant and playful colonies of King and Gentoo Penguins. Be part of their Antarctic enclosure and experience how these amazing animals live and play in their natural habitat of snow, ice and very cold water when you travel through their enclosure on the Penguin Enclosure "Snowcat"journey.

Ferocious Sharks, piranhas, turtles, crayfish, moray eels, brightly coloured and poisonous fish are all inches away on a specially created moving viewing platform, which travels under an ingenious 110 meter acrylic tunnel - the longest of its type in the world. This makes the Underwater World experience a very real encounter with the most dangerous predators of the deep  Sharks.