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| - If you ignore the entry fee ($19.95 for those over 12 and $13.95 for kids 2-12) this isn't a bad little aquarium.
I'd say there are three "wow" exhibits.
The first is obviously the giant shark tank in which you can walk through a tunnel surrounded on three sides by sharks and other sealife swimming by. The second is a low, topless tank in which you can walk up and touch manta rays as they swim by.
And the third, my favorite, was the jellyfish tank that is set about 15 feet straight overhead and light by ... I guess you can call it mood lighting. I could have spent all day giving myself a stiff neck watching the ethereal creatures gently float around while catching the changing lights.
The aquarium does seem quite small but as I walked to our car (oh, yeah, you have to pay for parking, too) I was going over what was missing and I couldn't think of anything -- Eels, piranhas, octopus, barracuda, sea horses, turtles and tortoises were all there. Maybe a couple more larger exhibits would have been nice featuring just different kind of fish that you usually don't see.
I'm giving it 3 stars but I would say the children who were there would have given it 5 stars based on all the excited shouts and pointing. The parents who had to pay the admission price? Not so sure.
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