Monterey Bay Aquarium

Today was the last day we had scheduled in Monterey. We had planned ahead of time to go to Monterey's aquarium, so we accordingly did so. It was, put simply, absolutely amazing. Every variety of fish and mammal you could name was there. Seahorses, sea otters, jellyfish, crabs, anenomes, even octopi were among the multitude that were there.  The best exhibit were the jellyfish, hordes of them just drifting. It was beautiful in that mindless way jellyfish have. Even better, there was an interactive display that seemed to come straight out of a science fiction movie. Using a touch-screen, you could pull up zoom views of plankton and move them around.

The zoo wasn't all smiles and rainbows, however. The aquarium spent quite a bit of time describing the dangers posed by humans to the undersea environment. Before this ends up as "please, take the pledge to reduce water consumption or feel indescribable remorse", I'm just going to simply say that watching what you do and being as efficient as possible; you could save a cute sea creature. These guys are counting on you.