Mom and Dad helped Stephanie bring all of her stuff back to Southern this weekend. We're glad to have her back and closer than ever before in Southern Village. On Sunday we took a trip down to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta - the largest aquarium in the world supposedly. The largest tank is the size of a football field and has thousands of fish, rays, and sharks including 4 whale sharks flown by UPS over from Asia.
Mom talking to a guide in the tunnel.
This grouper is right next to Ryan in the big tank - see how big it is? I think they can get up to 700 lbs but this one is only 400. You can use this size to compare the grouper's size to the whale shark in the big tank picture below.
Big ray
This isn't a very good picture but I include it because 3 of the 4 whale sharks are in it. These are young ones and will get much bigger!
The whale sharks almost always stay up on the top but this one came down for a look. See the big grouper next to it?
Ryan and Dad watch the tropical reef. There are lots of bright blue "Dori" fish in there if you look closely.
Ryan meets a jelly fish.
The camera doesn't do justice to the color of its body.
Stephanie touches a sea anemone
Divers went down to clean the beluga's tank glass while we were there and the whales kept playfully nipping at their kicking flippers. It was quite funny - almost like a dog.
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i went there with scott the weekend after it opened. the balugas were my favorite. :)
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