My friends are asking if I’m involved in any of the fun social media and I’m like nope but I love that team and I’m trying to meet all of them
(Monterey Bay is the GOAT: Greatest Ocean of all Time)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCZ-RrjIwQy/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
The otter people didn’t let me take my phone to the behind the scenes otter feeding, but promised to send me photos after so
#Marine #Mammals #Otters #OttersOfMastodon #OttersOfTheFediverse
At work they got us to head out to connect with the ocean. Honestly can’t believe I get to be here
Also not lost on me that this very beach was yet another Chinese settlement that was destroyed by ‘fire’ in 1906
View from a room where I’m having a 3 day training program
Someone just told me ‘California sheephead transition from female to male, AND conjure a sphere of mucus to protect them when they sleep’
Maybe it shows I spend a lot of time looking at jellyfish but I got in this morning and was like NEW JELLY
@skinnylatte or the ‘poorly poached egg’, as my wife dubbed it. One of my favorites! Though I think the gooseberry comb jelly, and the unnamed one that looks like a red gooseberry are the top of my list.
Some photos of the outside
Many of my days in Monterey kick off here. It’s the coffee spot near work I tend to have breakfast meetings at, and also the mid point stop on my bike ride there.
Some days I feel like I’m in a John Steinbeck novel
Can’t believe I get to see penguins while I’m at work
View from an office window (and I work in one of the ‘boring’ office buildings, not at the main aquarium). They all have pretty good views I think
The kelp forest exhibit says something like ‘you always know it’s a rockfish when it’s just laying there not moving’
Same
Birds before work (I went through a secret door to find some cormorants)
My wife is in town (very rare!) so we took a nice evening stroll from the aquarium to the Sandbar
Bloody-belly comb jelly. Can’t believe I get to see this at work
https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/bloodybelly-comb-jelly
Black necked stilts at our onsite aviary (which rehabilitates and releases injured birds, and keeps those who can’t be released)
The ‘wave crash’ feature at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
@skinnylatte the photo really does not convey how ridiculously big they are.
@b0rk @skinnylatte Yes. It's just so pleasing to see someone having a great and exciting time right now.
