Located in Denver, Colorado, this beautiful indoor facility features aquarium exhibits from around the world, as well as a habitat for Sumatran Tigers. There is also a Downtown Aquarium in Houston, Texas, owned by the same company.
Located in Denver, Colorado, this beautiful indoor facility features aquarium exhibits from around the world, as well as a habitat for Sumatran Tigers. There is also a Downtown Aquarium in Houston, Texas, owned by the same company.
This photo (via a flash) only tells a fraction of the story.
An excerpt from my 2012 review:
The Desert area contains one of the all-time great aquarium exhibits and there are not even any captive animals involved. Visitors enter a darkened, cave-like environment that features walls of sandy-like mock-rock along both sides of the pathway. A wooden bridge is in the middle of the room but before I crossed it there was lightning flashing in the sky, thunder booming and the room became even darker. Signs declared: “Warning: Flash Flood Area” and yet my family was only one of a few that actually read the wet/dry warning signs. The lightning intensified, the noise of the thunder rumbled through the dark, and my poor daughter clung to my neck as she became quite scared. Then water gushed out of a crevice in a rock (inside the exhibit) as large glass viewing windows began to fill up with water as it poured down the rocky slope. More and more water began to churn and I was excited to see such a tremendously entertaining display when suddenly it was as if someone from above flushed a toilet as an overwhelming amount of water crashed down with a thunderous roar into the exhibit, soaking everything and then an almighty splash went over the glass and soaked an entire family. Hilarious! I had no idea what to expect but the family was right near the glass and obviously they did not take heed of the warning signs. The water eventually died away and within a minute or two it began again and my daughter and I went back twice more to see the crashing water splash out onto the floor, and with the lightning and thunder effects I have no problem declaring Flash Flood to be one of the greatest aquarium exhibits of all time. Georgia Aquarium’s Ocean Voyager tank has competition!
