We arrived at the Aquarium of the Pacific bright & early, easy to do when you are walking distance from it!
What a cool aquarium! We had planned on visiting ever since we discovered that you could pet sharks there at Shark Lagoon. The sharks are the smaller non-human eating variety, & were actually bunched up together snoozing in the warm shallows like a pack of puppies. They felt softly of sandpaper, not harsh but definite friction. Sting rays, minus their barbs, were also in the tanks. They feel slippery-slimy with very firm flesh. We all prefered touching them, & they prefer it, too! They would come up close & push their heads up out of the water trying to beg for contact. The glass enclosures allowed us to see the bottoms of their bodies when they did this - creamy white color with mouths working steadily. They were a lot of fun & of course Kimi & Shaun started naming them.
There was also a lorikeet enclosure - crazy loud birds that dive bombed Kimi & me - Shaun wisely decided to window shop in the gift shop next door.
Back inside we saw an octopus, many different types of luminescent jelly fish, sea horses, puffins, etc. Great fun!
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