Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The Georgia Aquarium was huge. It had different exhibits with different themes. There was a tropical diver for the tropics, a Cold Water thing for Alaska and Canada, a Exploring Georgia for Georgia, a River scout for the North American rivers and such and a Ocean Voyager so you can see the whale sharks and other huge fish. First, we went to the touch pool. It was where the Southern stingrays swum around in circles with a few really small hammerhead sharks. You could touch them and so we did. The hammerhead felt smooth while the rays were jusst plain slimy. If you walked into Georgia Explorer, then, there was another touch pool where you could touch shrimp. The shrimp always ran away so I didn't touch them much. Past that was yet another touch pool where you could touch horseshoe crabs. If you walked out of that and into River Scout, you got to see a river above your head and different parts of the river with different animals like turtles and garfish on both sides. at the end, there were two Asian small-clawed otters but they were sleeping. Next, we went on a tour that showed us the "behind the scenes" stuff like the top of the Ocean voyager and the top of the River Scout. After that, we went to Cold Water thing (I dont know what thing is) and saw some otters getting fed. I took a million pictures and when we were done, the camera ran out of batteries. There was also a penguin crawl tunnel where you crawed through a tunnel and got close to the penguins by standing up in glass cylinders that let you take pictures. Even old ladies were doing it! We saw a couple of beluga whales and went on a 4-d show called Deepo's underwater wondershow. It was pretty informative. Then, the coolest part was when we went into the tunnel of glass and saw the huge whale sharks and manta rays.They just swam over our heads and passed on. There were Giant grouper, HUUUGE Whale sharks, and manta rays. There were also some sawfish. I liked the Georgia Aquarium because it was just cool.

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