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 generally happy [...]
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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 excellent [...]
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, there was at [...]
One of the big attractions at the Monterey Bay Aquarium was their Jellyfish display. It is, by far the best display I have ever seen. It was surprisingly easy to photograph as well. One of the displays was of small jellyfish that had scintillating multi-colored lights running along their body. That is something that just [...]
During my trip to San Francisco, I went down to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I can see why it is considered one of the best aquariums in the world. It was quite impressive. This post just scratches the surface of the aquarium and over the next several days I will be posting individual areas of [...]
There were, of course, a variety of traditional and other animals at the zoo as well.
At the risk of causing some trouble doing birds near cats…. The zoo has quite a selection of birds in the bird house, behind glass, and a walk through atrium with birds.
Back to the Houston Zoo…. I finally finished processing all the Zoo pictures, so the next few posts will be about the Zoo again. This time, Cats… The cat area is rather small, but has a nice variety. I managed to get some fairly nice pictures of the cats who were somewhat active.
Something rather notable about the Houston Zoo, to me, was the number of birds on display. Their collection seems to be considerably larger than most other zoos I have been to. Unfortunately, the cage design made it difficult to get good pictures.
