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Aquarium of the Pacific : Long Beach, California : Trip Report

Aquarium of the Pacific

I was already in San Pedro to pick up the rental dive gear for my dive trip to Catalina the following day so I took the bridge over to Long Beach. The ride across the bridge was quite interesting. The Port of LA is HUGE!!! Not what I would call scenic but still impressive.

The Aquarium of the Pacific was ok. I really expected better displays of wildlife off the coast of California but there wasn't that much of it. I thought the Aquarium at Monterrey is far nicer.

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The first cool exhibit was of various jellyfish. Too bad my camcorder doesn't do well in low light.

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I then spent some time looking at the cold water tanks. I was planning on scuba diving the following day so I wanted to get an idea of what kind of things I would see.

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The rest is just miscellaneous stuff around the rest of the aquarium in no particular order.

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Next Section: You really have to check out the section on Scuba Diving Catalina Island.