Sunday morning we woke to rain and temperatures that we 20 degrees cooler than the day before. Time to look for an indoor activity. We all decided on the Atlanta Georgia Aquarium.
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| Polar penguins |
This is one of the best aquariums in the country with many specialized exhibits of sea creatures both small and large
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| Beluga whales also like frigid waters |
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| Dragon fish seen at a distance |
Two of my favorite exhibits were of the tropical dragon fish that look like floating twigs
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| Dragon Fish close up |
and the kelpl forest exhibit because it reminded me of diving off of the Channel Islands, CA
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| Kelp forest |
The aquarium has a lot of nice exhibit features like this glass tunnel
which allows viewers to get a much closer view of some really big fish like
The manta ray above or the shovel nose shark below
But the exhibit which startled us the most
were the four fully grown whale sharks
whose size dwarfed even the large rays and sharks in the tank with them. I didn't know we could keep creatures that large in captivity. At first I didn't believe they were real.
But they are real, and they are definitely the stars attrations of the aquarium.
We couldn't take our eyes off of them.
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