An Underwater Exploration with Musical Accompaniment

The other day Ed and I went to Coney Island in the south of Brooklyn, and spent many hours enjoying the wonders of the aquarium.

Underwater worlds from coral reefs to canyon gorges, multitudes of sharks, seals, octopi, penguins, jelly fish, sea ray, piranha … what follows is a colorful assemblage of pics and vids of the New York Aquarium’s many attractions, annotated as much as this tourist-not-marine biologist can muster.

Oh, and it’s been a while since I included musical “accompaniment” in these kind of blog posts, but I really should bring back this distinctive feature; so for extra fun I’ll throw in a variety of apropos song/music choices, like this one, the most apropos, I would venture:

We’ll start in the tunnel walk below the shark exhibit.

Seals!

Penguins!

Playful otter

Aquatheater Show

Coral Reef exhibit

Jelly Fish

Octopus

All over the aquarium grounds stand sculptures made with plastic garbage polluting the oceans.

This is Rufus the Triggerfish

Fish found in Africa’s Lake Victoria

Fish of the Amazon

A Pacu being fed

Piranha – Ed and I actually fished and ate Piranha when we visited the Amazon.

Fish from the Hudson Canyon.

The Hudson Canyon is an extension of the Hudson River Valley. The canyon runs from the New York/New Jersey Harbor up to 400 nautical miles out to sea, at points reaching depths of 3,500 meters (10,500 feet). (Thank you, Google)

Sea Rays!

A special mini-tunnel allows visitors to crawl under the tank and look up. Mostly for the kids, but even Medicare recipients like my husband participate.

For the large tunnel all-round view of ocean life I direct you back to the beginning of this blog post.