Yesterday I promised fish pictures and today I’m going to deliver.

There were tons of aquariums and ponds with fish and sharks and turtles and rays and…well, that’s all the sea life I can think of.

Except lobsters!

And eels.

Anyway, they had this one cool HUGE aquarium. It’s the one we could see from our room (the blue water in the night picture from yesterday’s post). It was right off the lobby (downstairs from the lobby technically) and had a fancy restaurant (we ate there - I had cornish game hen, hubster had rack of lamb - it was a far cry from the spagetti with jarred sauce that we’re used to).

Anyway, they also had this thing called “The Dig.” In a Disney-ish way, it was supposed to be a walk through the excavation of the lost city of Atlantis and along the way you saw more fish and stuff. (They had guided tours and we were there with one group when someone asked if it was the real Atlantis. Had I been the tour guide I totally would have said yes).

It was very cool.

And their main attraction was Zeus, a 12 foot wide baby Manta Ray.

They say that he could grow to have a 30 foot wing span (and the people we know who went on the trip last year said he had about doubled in size). Still, he’s already outgrowing his tank!

As I mentioned yesterday, they also had several shark tanks. Including Hammerheads.

And this guy was one of my favorites. He sat there just kind of bobbing in the water, opening and closing his mouth. I think if I were a fish, I’d be a grouper.

More to come tomorrow, too…