The Zereps

Continuing my on-going series of touristy trips I’ve taken while Candice is at work (and is too cool to come with me on…)

Yesterday I took a trip down to the New York Aquarium–the only only (and therfore biggest, coolest, and greatest) aquarium in New York City. Talk about a long subway ride–it took me almost one-and-a-half hours to get from Astoria to Coney Island in Brooklyn, where the Aquarium is located. Luckily for me though, Coney Island is at the south end of the N Line track, where Ditmars Blvd. in Astoria is the last stop on the northern side. Although it was far away, I didn’t have to transfer to another train to get there, so that was nice.
Once again, in my continuing forgetful tradition, I forgot to bring any sort of camera along with me on my excursion. (d’oh!) I really, really need to get a cell phone with a camera built in to it.

Basically, for those of you in Sacramento, it was like a scaled-down, lamer, but still pretty fun and not as corporate, version of Marine World. There were ‘California Sea Lion’ shows, Penguins, Sea Otter and other outside exhibitions and shows, but the more interesting stuff to me was the actual aquarium fish in tanks.

The aquarium had a very wide variety of fish for viewing pleasure. One of their new exhibits is called ‘Alien Stingers‘, which highlighted sea animals such as anonomes, jellyfish, corels, and others such as eels, that protect themselves and catch prey using some sort of ‘stinger’ mechanism. I had to push and shove my way through droves of little kids running around, but that was pretty much expected. I only spent $20 the whole day for admission, transportation, and a snack, so I consider a Sunday-on-the-cheap well spent.

I’ve got a list of a couple other tourist spots I’d like to hit before moving… not sure which one will be next, maybe City Hall or the New York Library. Anybody got some suggestions?

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