- Little finches in their homemade cage at Traci and Scott's house
- Their little chirrups woke me up in the morning as the sun rose and their red heat lamp lit my room at night. It was cozy
- Willie, their orange tabby, is constantly asking to go outside if he's inside, and inside if he's outside
- He wants outside
- Color in winter
- Rabbits in the garden
- Monterey Bay Aquarium!
- Baby Bat Ray that I freaked out over
- Art made out of plastic; a representation of plastic pollution in our oceans
- An albatross made from plastic; 97.5% of Laysan Albatross chicks have stomachs full of plastic because that's what their parents can find to feed them
- Sea turtles mistake plastic bags for jellyfish and accidentally eat them, causing them to die. This exhibit was incredibly important and had great information, but displayed it in such a way to not "frighten people off"; they combined art and words of warning to send a message and I loved it
- I know her!!! My aunt posing next to one of her photos taken for this exhibit because of her lovely, expressive face
- Portable moon jellies
- This picture reminds me of a pin-up. Apparently, she got drunk before taking the shot because she was so nervous about it
- A diving auklet
- A common murre shakin' it out
- I love catching photos of animals with their mouths open
- What do you see down there?
- Pretty auklet
- Just keep swimming
- One of the Einstein sisters in the Outer Bay tank
- Turtle silhouette
- A mola, or sunfish. Giant, weird half-fish with amazing expressions and brains the size of a lima bean, I love them
- Sardines
- Mahi Mahi, or dolphinfish
- My favorite picture from the entire weekend
- Fascinated
- "Swim away!"
- Hammerhead shark
- Fish have the best little faces
- A pod of air dolphins
- Jellies
- Tidepools
- Cormorant Rock
- Angry fish
- Humpback replica
- This color is fantastic, I took this picture specifically for Megan
- The Kelp Forest
- More fish (it was an aquarium, after all)
- Alien fish
- A teeny fish who wanted to say hello
- Red on blue
- Watching Scott feed the sunfish; they're trained to target these floating balls that they think provide them magically with food. Squid is then dropped into their waiting mouths
- Harbor Seal Beach
- A bird on a rock
- Filtered light
- Kelp Forest tank
- If that isn't a stoked sunfish, I don't know what is
- Common Antlantic Octopus
- Scott taught us about jellyfish
- Stop! Hammertime!
- A beautiful case of pink-eye
- Feeding/enrichment time for Gidget and Pup 69
- My favorite, most beautiful seabird of all time, Makana
- She was so demure and flirted with us the entire time, sky-mooing and whistling
- Jellyfish are amazing
- So beautiful
- Hi, cutie ♥
- So adorable
- Upside-down jellyfish
- Contrast
- I literally could not find my way out of this room
- Touch pool
- Close encounters
- Pink
- A field of sea nettles
- Listening to their words
- Pacific Octopus suckers
- Underwater truffula trees
I still have pictures of birds and seals (two of my favorite groups of animals), but I figure this is a pretty picture-laden post already.
Tonight I went with my mom and aunt to an event called Paint Nite where an artist taught us how to paint an owl at a local bar called Zest. I ordered way too many lavender lemonade martinis (omg so good) and got real drunk while painting a multi-colored owl. It was AMAZING.
