Photography from around the world by Andreas Welch.
While traveling around the US, I also visited the Camden Aquarium. It’s not a bad aquarium, but doesn’t really stack up to the Monterey Bay Aquarium where I’d recently visited. However, their “big” tank was impressive and nicely setup for viewing.
One of the demonstrations at the games was a Border Collie herding sheep and ducks. The presenter described their heritage, work and training.
The Roanoke Zoo also has a small, but excellent aviary. Probably not more than 20×20 feet, there’s a variety of birds that are obviously used to humans, calm, and beautiful.
Roanoke’s zoo is small, but excellent. They make excellent use of the space that they have available and focus on animals that don’t take up a huge amount of room. It’s one of the best zoos that I’ve ever visited. I especially liked their red panda display and got what I think [...]
We had a very limited time to visit the Science Museum, so we focused primarily on the Aquarium. We also went up to see the “living roof” and had a meal in the restaurant (not the cafeteria). The food was excellent, probably the best food on the trip, if a little pricey. [...]
We had a recurring “visit” in San Francisco. Several places we visited were in close proximity and within the territory of this hawk.
Returning from my move half-way around the world and getting everything setup again, I’ll continue with the San Francisco blogs. Today’s is a video of Jellyfish that were at the aquarium. This is the first video I’ve played with and while I would have done a few things different at this point, I’m [...]
I was lucky enough to be at the Aquarium at Otter feeding time. The viewing stand is upstairs and was incredibly crowded, even though I did show up a half-hour early for it. It was, however, interesting to see the trainers put the otters through their moves.
While I’m sure that the seals were encouraged to be “at” the aquarium (probably by an availability of food and the rocks to lay on), there was nothing actually forcing them to be there or preventing them from leaving. They were an interesting view out over the bay and the aquarium restaurant (which had [...]
The “The Secret Lives of Seahorses” exhibit at the Aquarium was one of the more crowded ones. It was also one of the more difficult ones to shoot. Flash was not allowed and a lot of the tanks were curved, which made getting an in-focus difficult or impossible in some cases. However, [...]