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View from the House Randy's Mother's place is... impressively located just off the water. |
View from the House, II This is a view from the front porch. |
Randy's Family I've only met them the once, but I hope I get to again. |
William and Bear Posing in front of the house. |
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Otters All good aquariums include a few otters. |
Otters, II They're such cute creatures. |
Otters, III Well, except when they're looking evil. |
Otters, IV But they're really just battling like cats. |
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Otters, V Which is not to say that I want one as a pet. |
Otters, VI I could only get them so many toys, after all. |
William and Otters Well, one otter, and it's a statue. |
Otter Bookmaking Randy and William were enjoying the hands-on bits too. |
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Frogs I like these guys. The flash offered some good lighting, too. |
Photoluminescence Of course, sometimes the flash is a hindrance. A tripod would have helped with this. |
Photoluminescence, II Still, I did a pretty good job. And they *allowed* flashes, which is something. |
Tiny Photoluminescence You can see something if you zoom in. |
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Vat of Jellies I think these things scare me like most people are scared of spiders, but they're so *beautiful*! |
Jellies I was able to get a good amount of detail here and there... |
William and Jellyfish I like the contrast a lot. |
Jellyfish I got a pretty good amount of detail here too. |
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Jellyfish As I already said, I was happy to have the flash. |
Jellyfish La la la! Jellyfish jellyfish jellyfish! |
Anenomes Well, no, they're jellyfish too. |
Jellyfish They're just hanging out on the bottom. |
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Tiny Jellyfish The little baby jellies were on the bottom of hte tank, I guess so they could be protected. |
More Jellyfish Aah, the clearly-dangerous ones! I don't know if they were Man-O-War or not, but it's possible. |
More Photoluminescence With a bit of ambient light helping out. |
Lighting up the Photoluminescents More contrast, less beauty. |
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More Tiny Jellies Again with flash, so they can be seen. |
Yet More Jellies I should have taken pictures of the labels. |
Yet More Jellies, Flash I guess that the contrast of the flash makes them worth holding on to. |
More Dangerous Jellies Still scary. |
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More Dangerous Jellies, II Still beautiful. |
Fun and Games I think this exhibit was showing off how the foods we eat can be made responsibly. |
School of Fish Tuna, I believe. |
School of Fish, II There were a *lot* of them. |
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School of Fish, III The contrast once again looked good. |
Yet More Jellies I really don't have anything to say. |
Yet More Jellies Nope. |
Yet More Jellies This space is intentionally left blank. |
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Yet More Jellies My hovercraft is full of eels. |
Man-O-Wars Okay, I think these are the dangerous guys. |
Man-O-Wars, II Or at least I'll proclaim them as such. |
Sunfish Not a great shot of him, but he was *ugly*. And handsome. And impressive. |
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Sunfish, II And in a great difficult-to-photograph tank. I'm not sure which shot is better. |
Shark? I think it's a shark. |
Sunfish, Again The tank is the centerpiece of the place, and... I've got to try a tripod next time. |
Tuna Close-Up Another shot, without flash, really looked a lot better. |
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Lookout Telescope Look! Up in the sky! |
William and Telescope He certainly looked up in the sky. |
Pigeon Racing We told stories of pigeon racing for hours later. I think there might have been some impromptu racing involved. |
Crab Another impressive creature. (Yeah, I'm really running out of useful things to say.) |
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Back to the Otters From above-land this time |
Back to the Otters, II They were just as fun to watch the second time. |
Back to the Otters, III So happy, so lazy... |
Back to the Otters, IV Such fun little guys. |
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William and Tim Eating It was fun having Clam Chowder at the aquarium, if not a little weird. |
Tim As always, it's good to have some shots of me. |
William and Tim I'm always glad to be able to hang out with William for a while. |
The Ocean There's more water out than in. |
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Tide Pattern I think this was an exhibit, I don't remember for sure. |
Petting Zoo All of the best aquariums have petting zoos like this. |
Crab Part of the petting zoo exhibit. |
Starfish It was a better petting zoo than most. |
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Manta Ray and Flatfish A nice contrast of colors and shapes. (There's a nice, generic description.) |
Flatfish Cute little guy, eh? |
Water Bird I like how he's completely invisible in the thumbnail. |
Vertical Fish One last fish, on the way out. I suppose that it'd have been better to photograph the Scuba diver in there instead... |
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