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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

Some photos of the outside

https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/113523907297130686

I went for a walk at lunch

I met some of my coworkers

I love going to see the jellies

A coworker showed me her anglerfish plush toy

Many of my days in Monterey kick off here. It’s the coffee spot near work I tend to have breakfast meetings at, and also the mid point stop on my bike ride there.

Some days I feel like I’m in a John Steinbeck novel

More jelly

Can’t believe I get to see penguins while I’m at work

View from an office window (and I work in one of the ‘boring’ office buildings, not at the main aquarium). They all have pretty good views I think

Pufffy

I get notes with fish on them

View from my lunch meeting

The kelp forest exhibit says something like ‘you always know it’s a rockfish when it’s just laying there not moving’

Same

Birds before work (I went through a secret door to find some cormorants)

I’m obsessed with the egg yolk jellies

My wife is in town (very rare!) so we took a nice evening stroll from the aquarium to the Sandbar

Bloody-belly comb jelly. Can’t believe I get to see this at work

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/bloodybelly-comb-jelly

Black necked stilts at our onsite aviary (which rehabilitates and releases injured birds, and keeps those who can’t be released)

The ‘wave crash’ feature at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

GIANT sea bass

I love this pic I took of the avocet this morning. I went to the aviary this morning before we opened and I had the whole place to myself

Baby birb (snowy plover)

I like to take the scenic route to my office (past the kelp forest)

The back deck when there’s no one there is really cool

I don’t know if you know how big this tank is

You can also se inside here https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams/kelp-forest-cam

The round blob in the top center is a southern sea otter frolicking by herself

Lunch with a view