Time travel with me back to yesterday and a Road Trip to Chattanooga and a visit to the Aquarium there. I googled the exhibits and found this description.
The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga is a large, very popular public exhibition facility chronicling the course of the Tennessee River from its origins in the Cove Forests of the Great Smokey Mountains of Eastern Tennessee down through the mountains, middle reaches, swamps and lakes to its final passage into the Gulf of Mexico. The Tennessee Aquarium also displays exhibits of the ‘Rivers of the World,’ beautifully crafted naturalistic enclosures with a variety of foreign wildlife. It sports one of the best public collections of both North American and foreign turtles in the U.S.A. & is a popular tour site for turtle enthusiasts.
We will start our tour at the top where you see the glass skylights.
The exhibits are interactive as you can see.
The first room on our visit was a mountain stream home to a family of otters. They choose to keep moving and so any pictures of them were blurs of activity. Next came the swamp and bog region of river life and the alligators were more than happy to pose as sun lovers ontheir logs.
The rivers are truly alive with strange and wonderful life.
The edges and banks of our waterways are filled with more life. There were an amazing variety of turtles to be seen.
After descending to the deep waters of our rivers and seeing the teeming marine life there we visited the delta lands before heading next door to the second aquarium and the ocean journey. Here you see the second building and the pedestrian bridge across the Tennessee River.
Once again we start at the top of the building up in the skylight area and the tropical areas of the ocean habitat of the world. Here you see a little ray in the interactive ray and shark petting pool .
The butterfly garden was next and here a couple are at the fruit bar.
A beautiful orange, don't you think.
Mon is trying to entice her daughter to extend a finger of friendship to this beauty, but little sweetie doesn't think so.
Who knew that after the butterflies we would head into the icy sea of penguin life. They also drew a large crowd as they romped and played.
We end our picture tour at the reef of many colors.
3 comments:
What a beautiful stroll. I especially loved the butterflies and moths (of course) but the other wild life is wonderful too. The turtles you showed have an especially interesting pattern on their shells!
I'm so glad you strolled and shared the photos here!
It was a fun day out yesterday. It was a church outing. About 18 of us went. We always have a good time.
I loved your stroll, especially those beautiful butterflies and their vibrant colors!
Thanks for sharing!
Ruth
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