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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
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 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
Some photos of the outside
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.
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
The kelp forest exhibit says something like ‘you always know it’s a rockfish when it’s just laying there not moving’
Same
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)
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
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
I went to hang out with my friend, Ray
(You can watch the live stream too: https://www.youtube.com/live/QXhVdEyLRT0)
My evening commute (I waited till closing time and for all guests to leave, then I went to hang out at the open sea exhibit by myself)
@skinnylatte working in that kind of environment all day must be like a continual positive reinforcement of peaceful feelings all the time
@skinnylatte I dunno, there's something fishy about this photo...
@skinnylatte What are the bubbles? Is that like an oxygenation cycle that runs before the exhibit opens?
@skinnylatte I used to think my office being on a boat was pretty cool, back when I lived in Cleveland.
But now I am incredibly jealous of your office.
@skinnylatte Very jealous
@skinnylatte I used to do that when I went to the big IBM offices. They're terrible places, but they had pockets of beautiful spaces and no one was ever there.
They'd be hiding in their cubicles.
Canada goose, AKA the flying shitbomb. Unfortunately, not good eating.
@skinnylatte they’re one of my current obsessions 
@skinnylatte is this the fish that one can admire in this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI3yNckfSvU
I kind of envy the seals, surfing under the waves. Looks fun but tricky.
I think it is it. Maybe, but I do not care how one call it, it is majestic.
I hug nature.
@skinnylatte i assumed it was a supremely whimsical art piece. now i know it's a costume i am overjoyed that such a thing exists
@thegarbagebird oh yeah i work at an aquarium and we wear this in our podcasts or to pride
@skinnylatte you have so much self-control. if i had daily access to that i would be banned from using it within a week
Mari 
@thegarbagebird @skinnylatte ... excuse me but is it possible for non-employees to become the mola? because I love the mola very much
@skinnylatte I’ve seen the one at the Monterey aquarium!! It’s so cool and huge!
@skinnylatte reminds me of the one hanging in my home towns museum https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/otago-museum%E2%80%99s-display-sunfish-just-got-even-more-intriguing
@skinnylatte look, you're adorable and so is the fish!
@skinnylatte Too awesome. (Both photo AND caption.)
@skinnylatte Is Ray still on X or is there a Ban?
#SCNR the wordplays
@skinnylatte Does that bag say "DUI"? "Diving while under the influence"?
Well is he your bass or your friend??
@noondlyt the bass friend I’ve ever had
Thank Cod for them.
@noondlyt @skinnylatte
Holy mackerel, you two.
@fembot @noondlyt @skinnylatte it feels like not just friendship - it’s a moray
@skinnylatte How low can he go?
@skinnylatte it’s all about the bass.
minor! @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io no braine, it's not a bass, it's a bass
choir is rotting my phonetic ability for bass
@skinnylatte I cannot tell you how envious I am.
@skinnylatte You have the best job, and you have earned it.