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Dolphin Cove has been renamed Dolphin Beach. Likely an effort to distance the park from the practices highlighted in the 2009 documentary 'The Cove'. Australia's Sea World is home only to dolphins that have been bred in captivity or have been injured in the wild.
The seabird rehabilitation area has been given a bit of a sprucing with new faux rocks and water feature.
Taking a page from Dreamworld's Ocean Parade, Sea World have repainted much of the park's railings and areas of pavement, going all out with the navy and light blues.
Early work has commenced on the 2015 replacement for Dinosaur Island.
In addition to the sad remains of a train and food and beverage stands, the station area has turned into a plaza. It looks like the lion's share of the budget for 'Conservation Station' went towards generic beachside cafe furniture.
It's almost like they just needed somewhere to store the old food carts, rather than wanted to create a vaguely realistic train.
The train blasts steam out every few minutes as a particularly uneventful followup to Bermuda Triangle's iconic volcano.
We don't think this train is going anywhere in a hurry.
It's almost as if Sea World have repurposed food carts to act as train carriages.
Something doesn't look right about those train carriages.
The train sits as a stationary reminder of one of Sea World's original attractions.
The train at Sea World has made a return as part of 'Conservation Station', a plaza filled with tables and chairs.
Pay no attention to the seats behind the wall.
The stadium at Fish Detectives has seen a dividing wall built down themiddle, making this small weekday crowd look quite full. Either it relates to crowd control or safety issues, or we have a confirmed location for Australia's first B&M roller coaster.
Track work is well underway on the first week of six weeks of maintenance. Jet Rescue is schedule to reopen March 16.
Jet Rescue is down for extended an maintenance period.
The fountains do a bare job of hiding the island. So long as you look at it front-on from water level without paying too much attention.
The departure of the SpongeBob Square Pants show has left the island on Sea World's lake – the focal point of the central Plaza Terrace – looking like a military testing area. A few potted palm trees and maybe some inexpensive shacks like those around 'Dolphin Beach' would do wonders to improve this very noticeable wasteland.
The grassy knoll that is 'Wild' still sits there, as wild as ever.
TMNT characters have started making regular daily appearances at Sea World.
