Yesterday, I went on a road trip with some friends up to Crescent City. My friend Dana had never visited the aquarium up there called Ocean World, so we decided to head up there!
The highlight of the trip was definitely the seal/sea lion show. Everyone had broad grins and the girls definitely squeed a few times.
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| Look at how cute that is! You can't say no to those faces. |
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| This is the laziest seal I have ever seen. I swear she only moved a foot the entire time we were there. |
There was also a tide pool. Growing up on the coast, we were all very familiar with tide pools. However, I don't think there I will ever not want to hold a starfish in my hand.
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| Velvet Starfish. This is my favorite Starfish ever they're just so soft! |
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| The underside of a starfish, in case you were wondering. |
Now onto the actual aquarium part. It's rather small but stuffed full of sharks and stingrays. Our tour guide scared the crap out of us by explaining how many sharks live in our local ocean. Apparently there are quite a few Great Whites! I'm not surfing anytime soon. The small ones were pretty cute though.
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| Leopard Shark |
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| Stingray! Aren't they cute! The also feel awesome if you ever have that opportunity. |
Finally, we were able to touch some sharks! Weirdly enough these sharks actually wanted to be petted. The two leopard sharks, the long ones along the edge, kept coming up to us. The sharks felt like sandpaper if sandpaper was alive. I always thought they would be soft and kinda velvety like velvet starfish but nope.
Ocean World was definitely worth the almost 4 hour round trip drive. Amazingly it only cost us $10 to do all of this! Next time you happen to be on the northcoast of California, ahahahaha never, I'd suggest a stop. The whole trip took about 45 min.
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