Sunday, November 8, 2009

Monterey - continued

Some aspects of the aquarium are exciting, some are hands-on, some are definitely more Zen.

Here's a good exciting one, right by the touch pools. They have a glassed-in area over which a huge wave hits every few seconds and splashes down into a fake tidal pool just outside the window. That's DS1 along with Ms. D our esteemed field trip organizer and a few other kids.




I have a short film of the toddler jumping as it splashes down and grabbing her stroller to get OUT of there. But blogger will only allow me to upload one video per post and I didn't get the shot framed very well, so you'll just have to imagine it.

And another of me standing too close to it outside and the water splashing me, though that's mostly "Look ma, the water!" and then footage of the pavement.

They certainly encourage you to look out at the Bay itself. Or not.








There's a new seahorse exhibit, which is pretty cool.
That's a leafy sea dragon. or a weedy sea dragon. Something that looks like a hunk of seaweed and which glides around gracefully, anyway.


And here's a Zen sort of place. It's the open sea aquarium which is viewable on two stories and is one of the biggest aquaria in the world. You can sit there either close to the top or close to the bottom and just watch these huge fish swim by. The used to have a great white shark, but it was unhappy in captivity and they let it go again.


That there's a Galapagos shark, of course. Can't you tell? The blob at the top is a tuna and not even the biggest one in there. And we can now identify Yellowfin as opposed to Bluefin tuna, thankyouverymuch, Google and DS2's report.


And this here's uh.... something else big and slow moving.


And this here is Exhausto-Baby. She slept in just that position for about two hours once she finally gave in and went to sleep.

Coming soon: the kids get all wet again. Surprise!

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