20/7: Monterey used to be an industrial town, built around the fisheries and the fish canning factory. The cannery has been closed for a long time now, but in it’s place an aquarium has been built. The most impressive aquarium that I’ve ever visited.
They had a special exhibit with jellyfish. Ah, such beautiful but, oh, so dispicable creatures.
It’s a wonder, how these creatures have come to be. Such beauty. But also deadly danger. This jellyfish is extremely poisonous. How the world is full of contradictions.
Is it two sea horses, or is it just an oddly shaped plant?
Mom and me were at the aquarium at then, when it opened, and got some time to walk around the place without too much people – but by noon the place was so crowded that it got almost impossible to get close enought to any of the displays to see anything. It felt like a relief to leave and get out into the sunshine.
But, despite the crowds, the Monterey Aquarium was an amazing place. Well worth the high entrance fee.
Katja Malmborg 