The Oregon Coast Aquarium was pretty nifty. You wound your way inside and outside through different exhibits. I really liked the way it was laid out.
It had the expected touching pool, but a little intimidating since not only did they have sea stars, a.k.a. starfish, but other spiky things. Seeing this and getting a text from a teammate made James very focused on finding real tidal pools. Easy enough since there is a lot of rocky coastline except you have to be there at low tide. That started a day of trying to time arrival at some rocky coastline at low tide. You have to keep following the trip to find out if we made it. (Hint: Some of my favorite pictures came from that quest.)
This was a pretty cool exhibit. I should stop and ponder sometime why the jellyfish (or is it sea jellies?) are always my favorite exhibit. They're always so pretty.
The cool thing here were the multiple tunnels where the fish were all around you. Made me dizzy looking at them, but very, very neat. Christopher took it all in...he just loves animals and watching them.
No words to do it justice. (I know hard to believe.)
Oh, wait. They weren't an exhibit. Nice smile from James who says he doesn't really know how to smile for pictures.
If you ever get to the Oregon coast, you should definitely make time to see this aquarium. Worth every minute (and dollar).
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