Monterey Bay Aquarium

Obviously we had to visit the aquarium at Monterey Bay before leaving, so yesterday was devoted to it and then the drive to San Francisco. J was especially looking forward to it; he woke up pestering us to go to the aquarium: "Are we going to the aquarium today?"

The Monterey Bay Aquarium was pretty fantastic. There was enough to do for a whole day, although we didn't have that much time since we had to drive in to San Francisco. The aquarium is housed in an old cannery (Monterey used to have a thriving fishery industry, and was famous for canning sardines - read John Steinbeck's Cannery Row).

J even got to throw a worm at some fish!

The Aquarium also has an area devoted to kids, so J and E got to get active. They put on flippers to mimic whales, created tide pools complete with toy fish, and tried their hands at fishing.


Kids nowadays are so lucky.