Monterey Aquarium

Sea Otters













(bat) rayfish - the softest, most gentle creatures...




Jelly fish


(the head of an) eel: the rest is inside the rock





Sweet sharkies



(Solitary) sunfish


Listening to the sound of the sea though my otter earphones



I wish I had some pictures of those massive tunas to show you.
Here is how the legend goes:
many many many years ago, the Aquarium people brought a white shark back from the sea into a tank at the aquarium. It didn't take long for the other fish to get used to the Big White and make friends with her. Especially a big tuna, whom we'll call, errrm, Big Tuna. So, Big White was contented with the tons of food the aquarium people were feeding her. So, she wasn't interested in hunting. Plus she was only a baby back then.
But then, well, then she grew up, and things changed. One day, Big White woke up feeling quite peckish, and she looked like she was reaaally going for one of her tuna friends. Aquarium people decided to take her away, back into the sea.
We don't know what happened to Big White, but we do know that the tunas were so distressed by the departure of their sweet shark friend, that they started displaying unusual behaviours, like going round and round and round as if looking for Big White.
Until one day, the inevitable happened: Big Tuna decided he no longer wanted to live without her shark friend, and catapulted himself against the tanks's glass wall. Imagine the visitors, seeing this huge tuna kamikazing against their faces: shock horror! but then, what would they know?
So, this is the story of Big Distressed Tuna who just didn't want to live anymore. Isn't it just so SWEET?!