I just got back from a trip to San Francisco, where my brother lives. Among the 87 different things we crammed into that trip was a visit to the newly-reopened Steinhart Aquarium (which is now combined with a planetarium and museum and called The California Academy of Sciences). Here are some photos of things that were cool.
The building is basically a big rectangular box with two huge domes inside it: One sphere is the planetarium, and one is the rain forest (it's clear acrylic). The aquarium is downstairs. So you walk next to the planetarium, and there's a pool next to it, and you look in it, and...butterfly fish?
Clams?
It's the top of the giant coral reef tank below!
These are pipefish, there were no photos of the sea dragons:
Nice anemone. The blue backgrounds can be pulled out so they stay clean:
These guys are photogenic:
Um yeah, that's me with my reef tank
Here's a better look at the viewing room for the big reef tank. My Bro Molesworth II, on left.
I don't want to post everything, but here's a couple shots from inside the rainforest dome. You can see the lake, and underneath, there's people walking through an acrylic tunnel, very cool:
I just like this pic. These darts are just basically uncaged inside the dome, I suppose they have their branch with bromeliads on it and they stay there!
The building is basically a big rectangular box with two huge domes inside it: One sphere is the planetarium, and one is the rain forest (it's clear acrylic). The aquarium is downstairs. So you walk next to the planetarium, and there's a pool next to it, and you look in it, and...butterfly fish?
Clams?
It's the top of the giant coral reef tank below!
These are pipefish, there were no photos of the sea dragons:
Nice anemone. The blue backgrounds can be pulled out so they stay clean:
These guys are photogenic:
Um yeah, that's me with my reef tank
Here's a better look at the viewing room for the big reef tank. My Bro Molesworth II, on left.
I don't want to post everything, but here's a couple shots from inside the rainforest dome. You can see the lake, and underneath, there's people walking through an acrylic tunnel, very cool:
I just like this pic. These darts are just basically uncaged inside the dome, I suppose they have their branch with bromeliads on it and they stay there!
