Miami Seaquarium

This Saturday that just past I took my family to the Miami Seaquarium. It was more of a present for my daughter for being such a good girl her first week of school. The day started a little slow, went to eat breakfast at McDonalds but took a while because it was jammed packed with people trying to get breakfast before 10:30, long trip through expressways and same old people driving like maniacs, but once we finally got there it was all downhill.




We started our day with looking at some dolphins underwater and the marine tanks. We saw one tank that had most of the fish from Finding Nemo. We saw Marlin & Nemo, Dory, Bloat, Peaches, Jacques, Bubbles. It was really cool to be able to see the dolphins swimming around underwater especially a recently born dolphin. He was quite playful and doing more twists and turns that the other dolphins.

After that we saw most of the shows. First was the sealions show. It's amazing how quick and swift they are in water and on wetland. Ww got to see someone feeding the sharks and answer some questions about their diet and feeding habits. They tend to rather eat a fish that's either dead or sick as opposed to a healthy live one. We also learned they actually don't particularly like humans and the reason for most of the attacks we've seen in the news over the years is mainly because they were startled and felt obligated to defend themselves. We didn't get to enjoy the dolphin show as much because our little one was getting a bit restless by that time and didn't want to sit still for the whole show so we took a break to get something to eat/drink and relax. We got to see a local celebrity, Lolita the killer whale, splashing a HUGE amount of freezing salt water on the first 4-6 rows. We ended the day seeing the sealion show once more to get a chance to take a picture with one of the sealions.