Adventure #1: Monterey Bay Aquarium
Pressed between land and sea along the Monterey Peninsula and at the site of a former sardine cannery on Cannery row is one of the worlds most stunning aquariums that attracts a whopping 1.8 million visitors a year. Monterey Bay Aquarium is a massive 322,000 square foot monster that holds thousands of plants and animals in over 100 exhibit tanks pumping water throughout at a rate of 2,000 gallons per minute. Roaming throughout the aquariums' well directed and stressless walking grounds, visitors encounter a variety of plants and animals such as giant kelp, stingrays, jelly fish, sea otters, penguins, octopus, and puffins, just to name a few. The aquarium was founded in 1984 by Lucile and David Packard with a mission "to inspire conservation of the oceans," as seen on their website.
And on top of that, Monterey Bay Aquarium is a leader in conservation. The aquarium has captive breeding programs for over 50 different species. They also incubate abandoned Snowy plover eggs until hatch for release back into the wild. One impressive program at the aquarium is their Seafood Watch program. It's a program designed to help us make good decisions about what types of seafood we buy and eat. They even have free wallet-size cards for visitors to take and carry with them wherever they go. And most importantly and in highly effective is the aquariums feedings and training sessions. These sessions give visitors an up-close-and-personal encounter with a variety of animals, their keepers, and their trainers. And each and every session is packed with a strong conservation message that is simple and highly effective; one that everyone in the audience can participate in. Messages such as lowering the use of plastics, recycling, and water conservation in our homes. Despite the endless and mind boggling amount of conservation efforts and issues throughout the world, it's the small things that truly count. The biggest impacts execute and begin on the individual level. If we all make these small changes in our daily lifestyles, we can literally save the world, individually, as well as a team. Keeper talks at the aquarium show us how we directly effect various species we might not previously know to have much of an effect on. In conservation, simple practices are state-of-the-art and Monterey Bay Aquarium is simply that.
After your aquarium visit, grab a deliciously massive Peanut Butter Hot Fudge Sundae at Ghirardelli just down the street on Cannery Row. And if you're a beer and brewery food lover, head up the street to Cannery Row Brewing Company on Prescott Avenue for at least one of their 73 beers on tap. If you like to try new things, have the breweries' red ale, or if your into hops, try the most popular beer, Green Flash Breweries' West Coast IPA. And as for nibbles...get the Pulled Pork Fritters. They simply kick ass.
Pressed between land and sea along the Monterey Peninsula and at the site of a former sardine cannery on Cannery row is one of the worlds most stunning aquariums that attracts a whopping 1.8 million visitors a year. Monterey Bay Aquarium is a massive 322,000 square foot monster that holds thousands of plants and animals in over 100 exhibit tanks pumping water throughout at a rate of 2,000 gallons per minute. Roaming throughout the aquariums' well directed and stressless walking grounds, visitors encounter a variety of plants and animals such as giant kelp, stingrays, jelly fish, sea otters, penguins, octopus, and puffins, just to name a few. The aquarium was founded in 1984 by Lucile and David Packard with a mission "to inspire conservation of the oceans," as seen on their website.
And on top of that, Monterey Bay Aquarium is a leader in conservation. The aquarium has captive breeding programs for over 50 different species. They also incubate abandoned Snowy plover eggs until hatch for release back into the wild. One impressive program at the aquarium is their Seafood Watch program. It's a program designed to help us make good decisions about what types of seafood we buy and eat. They even have free wallet-size cards for visitors to take and carry with them wherever they go. And most importantly and in highly effective is the aquariums feedings and training sessions. These sessions give visitors an up-close-and-personal encounter with a variety of animals, their keepers, and their trainers. And each and every session is packed with a strong conservation message that is simple and highly effective; one that everyone in the audience can participate in. Messages such as lowering the use of plastics, recycling, and water conservation in our homes. Despite the endless and mind boggling amount of conservation efforts and issues throughout the world, it's the small things that truly count. The biggest impacts execute and begin on the individual level. If we all make these small changes in our daily lifestyles, we can literally save the world, individually, as well as a team. Keeper talks at the aquarium show us how we directly effect various species we might not previously know to have much of an effect on. In conservation, simple practices are state-of-the-art and Monterey Bay Aquarium is simply that.
After your aquarium visit, grab a deliciously massive Peanut Butter Hot Fudge Sundae at Ghirardelli just down the street on Cannery Row. And if you're a beer and brewery food lover, head up the street to Cannery Row Brewing Company on Prescott Avenue for at least one of their 73 beers on tap. If you like to try new things, have the breweries' red ale, or if your into hops, try the most popular beer, Green Flash Breweries' West Coast IPA. And as for nibbles...get the Pulled Pork Fritters. They simply kick ass.
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