Archive for the ‘Destinations’ Category
Monterey Bay Aquarium Offers Free Admission to Government Employees During Shutdown
Regardless of your political leanings, this very generous move by one California aquarium is sure to bring a little warmth to your day. Since the country is in the middle of a big governtment shutdown, the Moterey Bay Aquarium is offering free admission to tall federal employees. Announced very recently on Facebook, the offer is [...]
Georgia Aquarium Opens Sea Monsters Revealed Exhibit
The Georgia Aquarium recently unveiled a brand new exhibit, and this one might make you crawl right out of your skin. Instead of adding a beautiful display reef or a mega aquarium full of sharks, this exhibit lets us appreciate the inner beauty of various sea creatures, literally. The exhibit is called “Sea Monsters Revealed: [...]
Snorkeling in Kona Reveals Plenty of Tangs
Wrapping up our coverage of a recent Hawaiian excursion, we turn our focus away from the Waikiki Aquarium and decide to get our feet wet by taking a brief snorkeling break in Kona. While the trip wasn’t to any of the high profile reefs that dot Hawaii, we did get to see plenty of marine [...]
Touring the Waikiki Aquarium – Part 2
A few days ago, we showed off a bunch of pictures from the first half of our tour of the Wiakiki Aquarium, and as promised, here’s the second part. While the first part of the trip focused primarily on the fairly new Northwestern Hawaiian exhibit that houses both male and female masked angelfish (Genicanthus personatus), [...]
Touring the Waikiki Aquarium – Part 1
In our humble opinions, the Waikiki Aquarium is the best public aquarium in North America, if not the world. Sure, the small Hawaiian exhibit may not have the super massive tanks that house whale sharks like at the Georgia Aquarium, but they makeup for their lack in quantity with an insane amount of quality. Gracing [...]
Picture of the Week, Peppermint Angelfish (Paracentropyge boylei)
The latest image to grace our regularly recurring Picture of the Week is not exactly the clearest one, but because of its subject, it’s actually the most exciting image we’ve ever featured. The picture, which we also showed off on our Facebook page over the weekend, is of one of the rarest fish you’ll ever [...]
A Trip to Moody Gardens Only Yields Disappointment
Yesterday, I loaded up the family and headed to Galveston Island for a brief, single-day getaway. Since I spent so much time on the island during college, our plan was to visit some old haunts and relive at least a few memories. And not being one to shy away from a local aquarium attraction, we [...]
Waikiki Aquarium’s Northwest Exhibit Delivers the Goods
The Waikiki Aquarium, already considered a premiere public aquarium by most, has decided to up the ante with the creation of their Northwestern Hawaiian Islands exhibit. The new feature houses some of Hawaii’s best and rarest livestock, including a few masked angelfish (Genicanthus personatus), of which prior to this exhibit there are only a few [...]
Waikiki Aquarium’s New Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Exhibit Opens Next Week
Several years ago, the Waikiki Aquarium announced they were going to be adding a new exhibit to their already spectacular facilities. Originally slated to open July 2nd of this year, the opening was actually pushed back to August 18th, which happens to be next week. This new exhibit, unlike the others on display at the [...]
Qatar Getting a New Floating Island Resort
Qatar and the other states that make up the Unite Arab Emirates are known to be on the cutting edge of over the top architecture, not even limiting themselves to building just on land. One of their latest structural wonders is a semi-submerged floating island resort. The $500 million amphibious resort sits right in the [...]
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