Vancouver Aquarium and Stanley Park Flowers

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:59:59 -800

The next day, we headed into Stanley Park to see the aquarium. They appear to
have an active aviary in addition to the usual fish. Normally there are also
shows with their Beluga whales, but one had just given birth so the tourists
were only allowed to watch the babies swimming around in the pool. Inside the
aquarium were some really cool exhibits--there were colorful coral hanging out
in a tank with were simply spectacular, and there were some very blueish tanks
with jellyfish bobbling around inside of them. Somewhere in the middle of the
aquarium there was a plastic display case with a bunch of coral, many starfish,
and a camera; there was a screen with a wheel that you could use to roll
through the past few weeks worth of images, thus enabling the impatient to
watch a very slow animal slowly creep across a big piece of plastic and other
starfish. That was cool.