The Monterey Bay Aquarium.
I LOVE aquaria.
I visit them wherever I can.
We arrived at the (world famous, and rightly so) Monterey Aquarium just after they had opened.
We stayed a whopping five hours.
We saw every nook and cranny of the building, while in the meantime stepping outside every once in a while, watch the sunlit ocean, take pictures, getting back into the aquarium, hanging over the railings again - to sum up: we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
The aquarium is a very pleasant place to stay because you're not shut up in a dark building, everywhere you go you're near large windows that overlook the ocean.
An unexpected treat. We wouldn't have done that if we had been on a tight scedule!
There's a 10 metres high aquarium with a kelp forest. They're the only aquarium that manages to keep kelp alive outside its natural environment (Monterey Bay, for example!).
The aquarium houses large, red, scary looking octopuses. And with all those tentacles the creatures move at high speed to and fro in large basins, yeach, they're creepy!
There's also a huge, two storeys basin with a lot of very big fish, like tuna and sharks plus a large swarm of glittering, silvery sardines, so very beautiful, I stood enchanted watching them swim and swirl, I could have stood there for hours.
And a jelly exhibition. The only aquarium I know that has 12 different varieties of jelly fish.
Oh I wished you could have seen that.
I love aquaria. And we've been to the famous Monterey Bay one. Wow!
I LOVE aquaria.
I visit them wherever I can.
We arrived at the (world famous, and rightly so) Monterey Aquarium just after they had opened.
We stayed a whopping five hours.
We saw every nook and cranny of the building, while in the meantime stepping outside every once in a while, watch the sunlit ocean, take pictures, getting back into the aquarium, hanging over the railings again - to sum up: we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
The aquarium is a very pleasant place to stay because you're not shut up in a dark building, everywhere you go you're near large windows that overlook the ocean.
An unexpected treat. We wouldn't have done that if we had been on a tight scedule!
There's a 10 metres high aquarium with a kelp forest. They're the only aquarium that manages to keep kelp alive outside its natural environment (Monterey Bay, for example!).
The aquarium houses large, red, scary looking octopuses. And with all those tentacles the creatures move at high speed to and fro in large basins, yeach, they're creepy!
There's also a huge, two storeys basin with a lot of very big fish, like tuna and sharks plus a large swarm of glittering, silvery sardines, so very beautiful, I stood enchanted watching them swim and swirl, I could have stood there for hours.
And a jelly exhibition. The only aquarium I know that has 12 different varieties of jelly fish.
Oh I wished you could have seen that.
I love aquaria. And we've been to the famous Monterey Bay one. Wow!
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