Honolulu Day One: Aquarium
Waikiki is home to some serious aquaria: in addition to the one I got all these pictures from, there was a three-story "oceanarium" in our hotel (at the restaraunts, of course; we had two buffet breakfasts to get the full effect of eating next to Manta Rays, but the pictures came out terrible), and a two-story walk-through tank at the DFS Mall. That's just the big ones that we saw....
 | Here we are, with some of the art outside the aquarium. I didn't get the name of this work, which is one of three geometrically painted large round rocks.... Max is holding his new dolphin (in its fashionable carrying case; they really seem to be the rage, at least at the aquariums we visit), one of three new stuffed friends he acquired this week. |
 | The audio wand tour guides were a great boon. Woody could hear all the information on the plaques and tanks without my needing to read it; Max loved punching the numbers (and reading them to his mother, which took another job away from me) and hearing the narration, and it was apparently reasonably well done from a 4-year old's perspective. I didn't get a wand (technically, Max got mine) but instead I got to have my hands and attention free to take pictures. |
Taking pictures of fish in tanks is probably harder than taking pictures of children.... here's the best, but don't ask me what most of them are. The top left is eels and anemones; the bottom center and right are clams! The rest are fish....
