This is going to be a little bit of picture overload today but I went to one of my favorite places, the aquarium, and had so much fun shooting today!! Their new Titanic exhibit is open and I finally got to see it!! It was really cool!! One thing I really like about the Mystic Aquarium is how interactive it is. Maybe it was always that way and I was just too young to appreciate it, or maybe because I can very easily be entertained by the animals, but they have loads of information about the different animals and they have ways of presenting it to kids in fun ways. The Titanic exhibit was no different, it's very educational for adults and kids
They have all kinds of touch screens that bring up information about the ship, the passengers, and about the crew who discovered it back in 1985.
We had fun with one of the touch tables, it was like something from sci-fi movies, there was a section with videos that you could pull up and make bigger or smaller, then a bunch of pictures to flip through, and documents all about the research that went into finding the wreckage. It was really neat!!
There were no actual artifacts in the exhibit. The group who discovered the Titanic are trying to preserve the wreckage as a living memorial for all those who lost their lives in the tragedy. Instead there are a few statue/reproductions of some of the items found. One of the touch screens has a library of videos from the ocean floor at the site that show shoes and pots and bed frames, one video showed champagne bottles that had the corks sucked inside due to the pressures of the ocean
It's an amazing exhibit, I would recommend checking it out if you're in or around the Mystic area!!
Then there was the rest of the aquarium to check out!!
This was one of the animals they have in their rescue center
There were a lot of frogs out in the marsh pond croaking back and forth
The turtles were out too :)
The penguins were all out waiting for lunch, they were also very vocal,
probably the most talkative I've ever heard them
They honked almost like a donkey
We finished off the trip watching the beluga whales, who seemed to be in a very playful mood today, they kept swimming back and forth in front of the windows showing off for the camera :)
I probably could have stayed and taken pictures of the whales and penguins all day :)
It gets me really excited about hopefully going to the Shedd Aquarium when I go to Chicago this summer!!
(Especially because they have dolphins there!!)
So that was my most recent, fun trip :)
Cheers :)
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