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After we hit the Olympic Sculpture Park, Rakka and I went to the Seattle Aquarium for the first time (she mentioned it here).
Something you might not know: I love aquariums (as long as they don't have echo locators, but that's another post). I grew up going to the baltimore aquarium, which is huge (but I don't go there anymore (see previous parenthetical aside)). Seattle's is relatively small, but it's full of nice stuff. Local stuff.
I saw thousands of these guys (left) at haystack rock in Oregon. The environment at the aquarium is just about exactly the same; they even have a tide simulator. That goes for these other starfish too (right).
![starfish OR style by leff on Treemo](http://www.treemo.com/files/treemo.leff.32031.mm.jpg)
![starfish by leff on Treemo](http://www.treemo.com/files/treemo.leff.32026.mm.jpg)
There are great displays everywhere. Like this circular tank where the coral competes with the fish for the 'most beautiful' title.
![circular tank by leff on Treemo](http://www.treemo.com/files/treemo.leff.32035.dd.jpg)
![nice coral by leff on Treemo](http://www.treemo.com/files/treemo.leff.32033.dd.jpg)
There's crabs, sea anemones (outside and with tide generators too).
![crabs by leff on Treemo](http://www.treemo.com/files/treemo.leff.32029.mm.jpg)
![sea anemone by leff on Treemo](http://www.treemo.com/files/treemo.leff.32034.mm.jpg)
As a scuba diver myself it was pretty fun seeing the cleaners. (I'm afraid that in switching modes around I accidentally blinded this diver with my flash, which normally I would never do. If you're that diver, I'm sorry.)
![from under the diver by leff on Treemo](http://www.treemo.com/files/treemo.leff.32032.dd.jpg)
I'm not sure how I feel about the salmon spinner though. I mean, I know they have to swim, but maybe they'd like some scenery? Or a sense of movement? The water spins just fast enough so they are swimming in place. Poor guys.
![salmon spinner by leff on Treemo](http://www.treemo.com/files/treemo.leff.32027.mm.jpg)
And that concludes the tour for today. The tour will continue tomorrow with the octopus. The jellies and the mammals will come after.
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