This Texas themed area has a terrific pair of aquariums that are air-conditioned havens from the scorching Texas sunshine, and the “Marine Aquarium” is the actual entrance to this 2005 set of habitats. Visitors enter via the prow of an enormous boat, and inside is a huge ceiling-to-floor tank with a large variety of fish. On the opposite wall, and across from the spongy floor, are a series of tanks with similarly colourful fish, including poisonous lionfish. Upon leaving this area visitors are immediately transported from the end of the boat and into the “Shorebirds Aviary”. In this large walk-through aviary there are: nutrias, brown pelicans, white pelicans, herring gulls, laughing gulls, black-necked stilts, ducks, sandpipers and a variety of other seabirds.
