New England Aquarium

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My usual effusive natural history information may be lacking in this post, because when I took these pictures, I was in a dark place crowded with children, trying to keep track of my father (who is a great man, but also half blind and half deaf), my brother (brush_rat), his two small children, and my step-daughter. I didn't read the exhibit interpretation too closely.


Just before we got to the Aquarium, we passed this lady sharing a bench with a Graveyard Tour Promotion.






These are moon jellies--Boston's common urban jellyfish. It made me happy that they are the first animals that you see in the Aquarium. If you are looking down into the harbor as you pass it on your way to the Aquarium, you will most likely see them there as well. This exhibit had a dial that allowed visitors to change the color of the light in the tank.

The temporary exhibit was jellyfish (That's what we called sea jellies back in the old days, kids. Ask me about "starfish" sometime, too.)


This exhibit was all about that stuff on the bottom. Some kind of seaweed?


Nope! Upside-down jellies! The whole exhibit floor was covered with the things.








Atlantic Salmon.




Leafy Sea-dragon.


"Hey look! What kind of animal is that? HAW HAW HAW!" (It happens to me all day at work.)


Whale skeleton.


Cuttlefish.


If you want to see the fun that preceded the trip to the Aquarium (and see pictures of people for a change), go here.

Comments

[anais2.livejournal.com]

These are marvelous- I really miss living near the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Atlantic critters are very different!
You can see jellyfish in the harbor? Cool.

[agelena.livejournal.com]

...a dark place crowded with children...

That is more commonly known as "Hell."

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bazilisk_/]

That's a good picture of the spidery crab above the leafy sea dragon. And I really like the first photo. :)