Georgia Aquarium Pictures - DUW

Well, FINALLY, after the aquarium has been here a year and a half, we finally made it yesterday - thanks to my company, who was selling tickets for $10 each (normally $24 each) for our annual Sprint for Cancer fundraiser. Here are some pictures from yesterday!

Hammerhead
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...m/Aquarium.jpg

This picture was to give perspective to this huge wall where people were looking at the Whale Sharks:
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9.../Aquarium2.jpg

Whale Sharks
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...WhaleShark.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...haleShark2.jpg

Stingrays
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9.../Stingray2.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...m/Stingray.jpg

River Fish
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9.../RiverFish.jpg

Penguins
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...m/Penguin3.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...m/Penguin2.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...um/Penguin.jpg

Garden Eels
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...GardenEels.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...ardenEels2.jpg

My favorites -the jellyfish
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...Jellyfish7.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...Jellyfish6.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...Jellyfish5.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...Jellyfish4.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...Jellyfish3.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...Jellyfish2.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9.../Jellyfish.jpg

Karl in the tunnel
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...rlinTunnel.jpg

and in front of a display I don't remember! LOL
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...arium/Karl.jpg

Awesome pictures, Robin!!


The jellyfish are beautiful! And those "garden eels" are just so....well....they look like something out of a Dr. Seuss book! :giggle: VERY cool!!!

And Karl looks handsome as ever! :D

Great photo's Robin! Looks like a wonderful place. :)

Woah, Robin! You've got some major photo skills! I LOVE those garden eels! How COOL are they??? Judy's right--they are like something out of Dr. Seuss!

Pretty! Great photos, I love the hammerhead one.

Great pictures! I'll have to make a trip to see the aquarium in person.


Correction on your "River Fish" picture...

They are a mixture of rift lake cichlids from Lake Malawi in Africa. It looks mainly like large groups of mbuna and a few Malawi haps(Red Empress to be exact...lol), and I think I see a peacock in there.

<Just me being a fish nerd.:nerd:

I would love to see more of their reef display if you have pictures!

-Jason

I love aquariums! I am a fish lover before anything else (except maybe the cats). Looks like a good time! I thought Karl was Asian though????

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Great pictures! I'll have to make a trip to see the aquarium in person.


Correction on your "River Fish" picture...

They are a mixture of rift lake cichlids from Lake Malawi in Africa. It looks mainly like large groups of mbuna and a few Malawi haps(Red Empress to be exact...lol), and I think I see a peacock in there.

<Just me being a fish nerd.:nerd:

I would love to see more of their reef display if you have pictures!

-Jason

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Jason - you are probably correct - but they had them at the entrance of the River Scout exhibit - they were pretty nonetheless! :D

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Originally Posted by AzureN1ght

Woah, Robin! You've got some major photo skills! I LOVE those garden eels! How COOL are they??? Judy's right--they are like something out of Dr. Seuss!

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Kim, the sad thing was - we were through half the exhibits before I finally figured how to set the ISO speed to HI in order to take better pictures that weren't blurs of fish going by. Sadly, the beluga whale pictures were too blurry :(

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Originally Posted by JLC

Awesome pictures, Robin!!


The jellyfish are beautiful! And those "garden eels" are just so....well....they look like something out of a Dr. Seuss book! :giggle: VERY cool!!!

And Karl looks handsome as ever! :D

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Karl says thank you, thank you!

The garden eels were really cool, I kept thinking of how they looked like a lot of different "morphs"! I wanted to take one home! :P

neat pics!:) rays are cool to watch.



vaughn

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Great photo's Robin! Looks like a wonderful place. :)

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It is, in fact that entire area is really nice and "the" place to take visitors to Atlanta. Centennial Olympic Park is across the street, CNN Center within walking distance, and the new World of Coke is going up right next door. Certainly a showcase area for Atlanta!

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Originally Posted by jglass38

I love aquariums! I am a fish lover before anything else (except maybe the cats). Looks like a good time! I thought Karl was Asian though????

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Shhhh, don't tell him he's not, Jamie, you have him believing it!

Aquariums are beast!! I love them also! I went to one last summer. I think I might have spent over an hour messing with the stingrays! :D

I wanna go, I wanna go, take me, take me!!!!!

Looks like a great place and the garden eels definately look like something out of Dr. Seuss except then then they would have a better name that ended with an -oozle :P

:rockon:

Wow! :eek: Great pix! Those Jelly's a AWSOME!!!!! Duuuuuude! ;)

We've been wanting to take the kids, and now you've just reaffirmed that. What beautiful pictures! Hot, hot, hot!! :bow:

Wow @ the Whale Shark. I have always wanted to see one. Where exactly is this aquarium?

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The garden eels were really cool... I wanted to take one home! :P

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:D :rolleyes: :D
harrrd to feed. very hard.


grrreaat. pictures. esp love the sharks and rays.

Loooove those garden eels!

The forgotten display looks like a saltwater reef with some tangs :P

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Wow @ the Whale Shark. I have always wanted to see one. Where exactly is this aquarium?

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Downtown Atlanta - http://www.georgiaaquarium.org

Those pics are awesome! I love the jellyfishes!

Now I want to go swimming! :)

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Loooove those garden eels!

The forgotten display looks like a saltwater reef with some tangs :P

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You are correct - it's actually this:

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At the center of this gallery is one of the largest living reef exhibits of any aquarium in the world. Living corals and thousands of colorful reef fish are presented in a faithful recreation of a tropical Pacific coral reef, complete with an overhead crashing wave.

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Nice shots Robin!! The wife and I got a chance to go last year on our Daytona trip, and it was awesome. I could stand in front of that 6 million gallon system staring for hours. Thanks for sharing!

-Evan

What? no pics of Robin? Just Karl :colbert:

I keed...VERY nice pics!!!!

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What? no pics of Robin? Just Karl :colbert:

I keed...VERY nice pics!!!!

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Actually, he wanted me to take pictures of him to post here, so his "brother from another mother" would see him (he knows who he is!) :P

those jellies are beautiful!

Nice pictures Robin I guess I should post mine too.

I don't know how I missed this thread. Awesome pics Robin!! I'm with everyone else... that eel garden is too cool. I'm going to go plant some eel seeds right now! :D

Absolutely amazing.. I still can't believe they have whale sharks. Someday I have to go down there and visit.