Fellow wannabe Humberside child marine biologist here 🙋🏻♀️ The 90s/noughties dolphin supremacy was such a thing. I was also fairly obsessed with otters.
Despite living next to the cold brown North Sea, I really did think becoming a marine biologist would involve working in clear warm oceans and having a very shiny ponytail. Made it as far as starting a biology A-Level but it didn’t really work with my all the arts and humanities subjects I was doing.
You and I occupy the middle of a highly specific Venn diagram and I'm very happy to have found you here 🤗 haha yes! Why did we not think we were going to be marine biologists in the Humber?!
I was obsessed with the idea of swimming with dolphins. I have a letter somewhere from Girl Talk magazine declining my request for them to make my dream of swimming with dolphins come true, damn!
Also was there any greater joy than the Sealife Centre? So many of my fave childhood memories are of going to Weymouth Sealife Centre, particularly seeing the stingrays.
Despite all this I can't really remember wanting to be a marine biologist as such. I have a childhood drawing somewhere captioned 'I want to own a pet shop but I'll be sad to say goodbye to all the animals' or something like that. Something tells me I wouldn't have made much money in the pet-selling business. One day maybe I will fulfil my dream but with a rescue dog charity.... with a few rescue stingrays thrown in for old times sake perhaps?
Fellow wannabe Humberside child marine biologist here 🙋🏻♀️ The 90s/noughties dolphin supremacy was such a thing. I was also fairly obsessed with otters.
Despite living next to the cold brown North Sea, I really did think becoming a marine biologist would involve working in clear warm oceans and having a very shiny ponytail. Made it as far as starting a biology A-Level but it didn’t really work with my all the arts and humanities subjects I was doing.
You and I occupy the middle of a highly specific Venn diagram and I'm very happy to have found you here 🤗 haha yes! Why did we not think we were going to be marine biologists in the Humber?!
😅 I'll also be very here for articles about chip spice
My go-to, when it comes to those who want to pretend to be a marine biologist, is Seinfeld’s George Costanza.
See also Flipper, Free Willy, Andre....
I was obsessed with the idea of swimming with dolphins. I have a letter somewhere from Girl Talk magazine declining my request for them to make my dream of swimming with dolphins come true, damn!
Also was there any greater joy than the Sealife Centre? So many of my fave childhood memories are of going to Weymouth Sealife Centre, particularly seeing the stingrays.
Despite all this I can't really remember wanting to be a marine biologist as such. I have a childhood drawing somewhere captioned 'I want to own a pet shop but I'll be sad to say goodbye to all the animals' or something like that. Something tells me I wouldn't have made much money in the pet-selling business. One day maybe I will fulfil my dream but with a rescue dog charity.... with a few rescue stingrays thrown in for old times sake perhaps?