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The view on my walk to work when I’m down there

Sticking my phone through the holes of a fence. And finding a (I think) Brandt’s cormorant colony

Kind of unfair that a random photo out of the railings has birds and otters in it

I get to sea the open sea exhibit before we open! A sure way to know we haven’t opened is there are bubbles in the water

The Monterey bay aquarium stands on the grounds of a former sardine cannery. Due to overfishing, the sardine population collapsed. When I heard about this I thought of the Silicon Valley office parks 50 miles north, engaged in modern extractive exploitation without ever giving back.

The recovery of the bay, the work of the aquarium and the marine national park status has completely changed the environment

Attending a staff-only internal guitar concert in the open sea exhibit this morning

You can watch some live cams here (of the animals, not the concert)

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams

Meeting in the kelp forest (we are closed today for a staff only event)

There really was a guitar concert in front of the sea nettles this morning

An exhibit that shows what a ‘whale fall’ looks like

Slow shutter speed / low light photo of a lump fish

Move over, JK ‘TERFY’ Rowling.

Here’s ’Hairy Otter’, written by (probably) JK Owl

My friends are asking if I’m involved in any of the fun social media and I’m like nope but I love that team and I’m trying to meet all of them

(Monterey Bay is the GOAT: Greatest Ocean of all Time)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCZ-RrjIwQy/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

The otter people didn’t let me take my phone to the behind the scenes otter feeding, but promised to send me photos after so

I have an octopus scarf!

At work they got us to head out to connect with the ocean. Honestly can’t believe I get to be here

Also not lost on me that this very beach was yet another Chinese settlement that was destroyed by ‘fire’ in 1906

Someone made a whale

I made a dumpling

View from a room where I’m having a 3 day training program

View from my last day of training

Someone just told me ‘California sheephead transition from female to male, AND conjure a sphere of mucus to protect them when they sleep’

Maybe it shows I spend a lot of time looking at jellyfish but I got in this morning and was like NEW JELLY

Pacific sardines

@skinnylatte I love these pics. We’ve been there, as a family, five or six times and we love it there. These bring back great memories.