Outer Bay: The stunning one-million-gallon Outer Bay exhibit is home to the largest community of open-ocean animals to be found in any aquarium. It homes ray, giant tuna, sharks, sea turtles. The outer bay also features a huge collection of jellyfish species. The outer bay section however starts with the An Chovis.
AnChovies: The anchovies are a family (Engraulidae) of small but common schooling saltwater plankton-feeding fish. They are found in scattered areas throughout the world's oceans, but are concentrated in temperate waters, and are rare or absent in very cold or very warm seas. This snap (below) shows the school of AnChovies swimming.
This snap is showing the feeding of AnChovies.
The next attraction here were sharks and other predators. It was pretty dark there and they were moving very fast thus making it very hard to take their picture. They also had sea turtles in the same tank. Here are few shots.
Ray: The first one is a shot of Ray with different image processing. Rays, also known as Batoidea, are most closely related to sharks and young batoids look very much like young sharks. Most species live on the sea floor, in a variety of geographical regions - many in coastal waters, few live in deep waters, most batoids have a somewhat cosmopolitan distribution, in tropical and subtropical marine environments, temperate or cold-water species.
Sunfish: It is the largest animal on display with 880 pound. The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) or is the heaviest bony fish in the world, with an average weight of 1000 kilograms. The species is native to tropical and temperate waters around the globe. It resembles a fish head without a tail, and its main body is flattened laterally. Sunfish can be as tall as they are long, when their dorsal and anal fins are extended.
Sea Turtle: Sea turtles can live upto 189 years, making them the longest living animal on Earth. They were the slowest moving animal in this tank but still light was low to get a good snap.
Shark: I am not sure whether its a shark or tuna. Any ideas?
Shark Tank: Shark tank shot from back. You can imagine the scale of the display from this.
Sea Otters: They are very fun loving creature. It was so much fun watching them play in the water. Here are few fun pictures. In the last one, its hard to see the otter (its at the the top left corner) but I love the lights.
Kelp Forest: This was my favorite section. I can spend eternity there. Some info about Kelp forests first.
Kelp forests occur in cold, nutrient-rich water and are among the most beautiful and biologically productive habitats in the marine environment. They are found throughout the world in shallow open coastal waters, and the larger forests are restricted to temperatures less than 20ºC, extending to both the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. A dependence upon light for photosynthesis restricts them to clear shallow water and they are rarely much deeper than 15-40m. The kelps have in common a capacity for some of the most remarkable growth rates in the plant kingdom.
The yellow plants in all these photos are Kelp.
You can actually see the cucumber fish on the rock in this one.
This one just shows the height of the exhibit
The whitish fishes in the back are the An Chovis. They actually swim in a group called school. They learn to swim with each other.
Okay, this is the shot of this scuba driver(I am not sure if you can call them that, but whatever) feeding the fish. You can actual see a fish biting his hand to get the food.
First one is coral reef . We visited this section last so we were really tired and hungry so not many photos from here.
This is from Shaley Reef. You can see prawns as well as Anemones. They look loike flower but are actually animals (Pink colored in this case).
Shaley reef again. Can you see the small fish lurking behind the rock?
Sandy Seafloor: The fishes here are fascinating. They metamorph in their environment so nicely that its simply amazing.
Can you spot the white fish on the sand in this one?
These are sand dollars. They are actually marine animals.
Penguins: These are black-footed Penguins. They were really beautiful. And these are actual pictures and not a poster.
Now few fun pictures from aquarium. There was this telescope placed at one portion in an area where whales visit. We couldn't see any whales but here are few experimental photos from telescope. There was this rock where few otters and ducks were resting.
Thats it for today..
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