This area is loaded with fun places to go. Museums are usually quite boring to me (especially if it's nice outside!) I admit it. One exception is this aquarium. They had lots of fascinating entertainment. We saw the penguins being fed. The family shot was taken as a wave crashed overhead...you can see that Daphne was pretty excited. You could touch live fish in shallow trays...crabs, starfish, and hundreds more I could never begin to name.
My favorite exhibit was the jellyfish. In the ocean they scare me and I stay as far away as possible. But in the exhibit, they were beautiful. So intricate.
Oh, and also we saw sharks and tuna and sardines all swimming around in a huge tank. It was better than scuba diving because you were safe and you could just observe.
The museum used to be where sardines were canned. Then the business dried up suddenly. They don't know if they overfished it, or if the sardines migrated elsewhere.
Packard, of Hewlett-Packard, bought the abandoned factories in the 1970's and financed the entire aquarium. It is very impressive and had everyone entertained for hours. It's not cheap, and shouldn't be....the tickets are $25 each for the normal entrance fee. Lucky for us, they had free tickets from Dad's school and he was able to get all of us in for free! That made the whole event even more sweet.
3 comments:
Wow, so fun! Sea life is SO incredible, I too could watch it for hours, especially for free! That's great that you got to spend time with Dan/Lara and gang.
That place sounds really fun! That picture of the jelly fish is really great with the red/orange and blue contrast. Beautiful.
Again, please send me those pics. Good work. I loved the aquarium. Zane said it was his favorite thing we did.
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