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By Vitaly Fobes
While we were in California, Mommy took Nikolai and I to Long Beach to visit the Aquarium of the Pacific. It was AWESOME! We wanted to find all of the fish that were in the movie “Finding Nemo”. I think we found them all, except the whale.
There were so many exhibits. First, we started out with the Sea Jellies Exhibit. There were many different kinds of jelly fish and we found out that they don’t have a brain or a heart and are 95% water. They were beautiful to watch but I wouldn’t want to touch one.
There are 3 galleries which each have lots of displays and aquariums. One had a 350,000 gallon habitat (I don’t think you can call it an aquarium at that size) that had over 1,000 different kinds of fish living together. There were Eels, sharks, sea turtles and porcupine puffers to name a few. Another gallery had an aquarium with a giant Pacific octopus. He was hiding and really hard to see.
We went into an aviary where there had to be 100 Lorikeets. They’re a really colorful Australian parrot-like bird. You can see in the picture that they were VERY friendly. One even got caught in Mommy’s hair.
There were also two sea otters playing with lots of toys and another one rolling around in a huge pile of ice cubes. All three had been found stranded on the beach when they were babies. The Puffins were cool too. We didn’t know that there were birds who liked to dive in the water, besides penguins. These guys were crazy, swimming around underwater and them jumping out and splashing all over the place. It was funny. We also saw shark eggs with babies moving around inside and got to touch starfish, sea cucumbers and anemones.
Outside, in the Shark Lagoon, there were pools of young rays and many different kinds of young sharks that we could pet. Their skin was tough, but smooth at the same time. We also got to see the sea turtles up close. Then we watched them feed the adult rays and sharks that lived in their own habitat with a school of tuna.
One ray looked like a shark with a chainsaw instead of a nose. It was appropriately called a Sawfish.
It was a great day and the animals were all so friendly so we were very sad when we got some bad news. Five days after we were there, teenage boys broke into the Shark Lagoon at night where they tortured and killed two of the young sharks and a young ray. They were caught the following night when they came back to try to do it again.
Outside, in the Shark Lagoon, there were pools of young rays and many different kinds of young sharks that we could pet. Their skin was tough, but smooth at the same time. We also got to see the sea turtles up close. Then we watched them feed the adult rays and sharks that lived in their own habitat with a school of tuna.
One ray looked like a shark with a chainsaw instead of a nose. It was appropriately called a Sawfish.
