
{"id":118,"date":"2006-09-05T19:35:36","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T02:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2006-09-05T19:35:36","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T02:35:36","slug":"monterey-bay-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/05\/monterey-bay-aquarium\/","title":{"rendered":"Monterey Bay Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbayaq.org\/\">The Monterey Bay Aquarium<\/a> &#8211; if you&#8217;ve never been or haven&#8217;t visited for awhile, I recommend you take the time to check it out. My daughter and I spent the day there and it was a fun learning experience for her (and me.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBat Ray in the touching pool<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/pix\/batray.jpg\" height=240 width=320><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe highlights of the day were the touching pools with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bat_ray\">bat rays<\/a> and various plants (like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelp\">kelp<\/a>) and animals (like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Starfish\">starfish<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sea_cucumber\">sea cucumbers<\/a>,) the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sea_otter\">sea otters<\/a> at play, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbayaq.org\/efc\/outerbay.asp\">outer bay exhibit<\/a> at feeding time for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuna\">tuna<\/a> (this is a 3.8 million liter tank with a movie theater screen sized view.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe exhibits are really well done and it&#8217;s easy to navigate, even with a three-year old on your shoulders. Check it out if you can.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMeatspace coordinates: <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=safari&#038;rls=en&#038;q=N37.32%20W122.30&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wl\">N37.32.4 W122.30.9<\/a><br \/>\nOhio State\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2006 record: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/teams\/oob;_ylt=ApiRDtt7p8MTZpktFXDiDqUcvrYF\">1-0<\/a> Next up: Texas 9\/9 5pm PST<br \/>\nTune: <a href=\"https:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=82652000&#038;s=143441&#038;i=82651861\">Fuego<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexcubaband.com\/\">Alex Cuba Band<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/aquarium\" rel=\"tag\"> Aquarium<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/monterey\"> Monterey<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/travel\"> Travel<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/mike+harding+blog\"> Mike Harding Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monterey Bay Aquarium &#8211; if you&#8217;ve never been or haven&#8217;t visited for awhile, I recommend you take the time to check it out. My daughter and I spent the day there and it was a fun learning experience for her (and me.) Bat Ray in the touching pool The highlights of the day were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}