Hey! Let's go to the bay!



Here we go again!  Off to the Monterey Bay Aquarium!



It is housed in an old sardine factory.  With the sardine production drastically down, cannery row has been converted now into a place of tourism.

The kelp bed aquarium adequately
showed what the bay looks like
from below.


 

It was nice to see a sand dollar alive verses their normal washed up status.

Without realizing, they had a
marvelous pro-life advertisement
on display.

The baby skate incubates in this shell for almost a year.  Of all of the displays in the aquarium, more people where amazed by how perfectly formed this skate was while developing than anything else. It even looked like it was smiling, too.

 



It was easy to see all of the life under the piers.



No, I didn't run this fellow over.



Well thought out displays really brought the underwater cities to life.  This one shows clearly what is going on underneath while we only really see the waves above.




Everyone dreaming of being a marine biologist.



Me, dreaming of how I can get one of these
buttons installed in by car!



Here fishy, fish!



They had plenty of sardine schools swimming about.

If you like jellyfish, than this is the place to go. I believe one of each variety in the world must have been on diplay.



The seahorses were the same.



Tiny baby seahorses.  There were actually some even smaller than these.




The exquisite creatures of the oceans are
always delightful to marvel at.

 

It was sad when our time there ended but we really had to be going.

Yes, we're leaving.  You don't have to look at us that way.