sandiegomaster
Well-Known Member
I guess I will be the first to write anything about birch aquarium. Birch can be split up into four sections, the fish room, the sea horses, the outside and finally the global warming were all going to die section.
I hate the global warming section, as am environmental chemist, I don’t believe its caused by man and I just complete disagree with everything they show. This really gets me going so I will just not say anything else about this.
The outside has two sections, a tide pool with seastars, hermit crabs, sea cucumbers, and a Californian lobster that you can touch. The other section has sharks, blacktip reef, epaulette, white-spotted bamboo, brown-banded bamboo, coral cats, and a zebra bullhead shark with a pelagic stingray.
The seahorse exhibit is small but interesting. It includes coral shrimpfish, slender seamoth to start. Followed by weedy and leafy seadragons. Then the seahorses are pot-bellied, spotted, lined, and long-snout. The exhibit then ends with double-ended pipefish.
Finally, the biggest section of birch aquarium has around 50 exhibits with one large seaweed forest exhibit. Some interesting highlights include about six species of jellies, nautilus, lionfish, octopus and several species of eels.
Overall it’s a nice place to go visit and in the first couple of months of the year from the deck you can see whales migrating and there is a whale boat hunting tour. I however suggest the maritime museum of san diego for a significantly better whale tour if you have a few hours to go whale watching. They also have an impressive collection of ships that you can tour for free with a whale watching ticket, including the star of india that was originally bought by the SD zoo to become an aquarium.
I hate the global warming section, as am environmental chemist, I don’t believe its caused by man and I just complete disagree with everything they show. This really gets me going so I will just not say anything else about this.
The outside has two sections, a tide pool with seastars, hermit crabs, sea cucumbers, and a Californian lobster that you can touch. The other section has sharks, blacktip reef, epaulette, white-spotted bamboo, brown-banded bamboo, coral cats, and a zebra bullhead shark with a pelagic stingray.
The seahorse exhibit is small but interesting. It includes coral shrimpfish, slender seamoth to start. Followed by weedy and leafy seadragons. Then the seahorses are pot-bellied, spotted, lined, and long-snout. The exhibit then ends with double-ended pipefish.
Finally, the biggest section of birch aquarium has around 50 exhibits with one large seaweed forest exhibit. Some interesting highlights include about six species of jellies, nautilus, lionfish, octopus and several species of eels.
Overall it’s a nice place to go visit and in the first couple of months of the year from the deck you can see whales migrating and there is a whale boat hunting tour. I however suggest the maritime museum of san diego for a significantly better whale tour if you have a few hours to go whale watching. They also have an impressive collection of ships that you can tour for free with a whale watching ticket, including the star of india that was originally bought by the SD zoo to become an aquarium.
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