PHOTOGRAPHY & WATERCOLORS
Travel: California Galleries
These are my images of Long Beach. The photos were taken around the ar ...
Updated: Jul 17, 2007 3:05pm PST
SCOTTISH RENAISSANCE FAIRE, PITTSBURG, CALIFORNIA
This is a small Scottish Faire held annually in Pittsburg, California. ...
Updated: Sep 25, 2006 1:09pm PST
COLORS OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
These are my images that show part of the variety of colors, people, a ...
Updated: Jul 05, 2010 8:19am PST
LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA
Mount Lassen Volcanic National Park photos are now in this Category N ...
Updated: Oct 20, 2006 7:16pm PST
BLACK DIAMOND MINES REGIONAL PRESERVE
The photographs of Black Diamond Mines are now in Category NATURE
Updated: Oct 20, 2006 7:38pm PST
DI ROSA PRESERVE FOR ARTS AND NATURE, NAPA VALLEY
The photographs of Di Rosa Preserve for Arts and Nature are now in Cat ...
Updated: Oct 20, 2006 7:55pm PST
MY HOME TOWN - ANTIOCH, CALIFORNIA
Antioch is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. T ...
Updated: Jun 15, 2011 3:05pm PST
The complete gallery is over at NATURE GALLERY
Updated: Dec 25, 2006 2:09pm PST
MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA
The miracle of the "Swallows" of Capistrano takes place each year at t ...
Updated: May 30, 2008 1:49pm PST
My complete photo collection on South Lake Tahoe may be seen at the Tr ...
Updated: Oct 22, 2008 6:10pm PST
![MONTEREY CANNERY ROW & MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM : The Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) was founded in 1984 and is located on the site of a former sardine cannery on Cannery Row of the Pacific Ocean shoreline in Monterey, California. It has an annual attendance of 1.8 million visitors. It holds thousands of plants and animals, representing 623 separate named species on display. The aquarium benefits by a high circulation of fresh ocean water which is obtained through pipes which pump it in continuously from Monterey Bay.
The centerpiece of the Ocean's Edge Wing, is a 10 meter (33-foot) high 333,000-US-gallon (1,260,000 l; 277,000 imp gal) tank for viewing California coastal marine life. In this tank, the aquarium was the first in the world to grow live California Giant Kelp. Visitors are able to inspect the creatures of the kelp forest at several levels in the building. The largest tank in the aquarium is a 1,200,000-US-gallon (4,500,000 l; 1,000,000 imp gal) tank in the Open Sea galleries (formerly the Outer Bay), which features one of the world's largest single-paned windows.
Sealife on exhibit includes stingrays, jellyfish, sea otters, and numerous other native marine species, which can be viewed above and below the waterline. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of very few in the world to exhibit both bluefin and yellowfin tuna. For displaying jellyfish, it uses a Kreisel tank, which creates a circular flow to support and suspend the jellies. The aquarium does not house mammals other than otters.
The aquarium occupies land at the end of Cannery Row (once Ocean View Avenue) in Monterey, at the site of the Hovden Cannery, a sardine cannery that helped to define the character of Monterey from the time it was built in 1916, to the day when it was the last cannery on the Row to close in 1973, after sardine fishing collapsed. This building was dismantled in 1980, but beginning in 2002 the Monterey Bay Aquarium has blown the original Hovden cannery steam whistle at noon each day to commemorate it.[4]
The aquarium's original building was designed by the architectural firm Esherick Homsey Dodge & Davis and opened on 20 October 1984. The aquarium's mission is "to inspire conservation of the oceans." The aquarium's initial financial backing was provided by David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. Packard, an avid blacksmith, personally designed and created several exhibit elements for the aquarium at his forge in Big Sur, including the wave machines in the Kelp Forest and aviary.](/photos/random.mg?AlbumID=23613760&AlbumKey=QGGpV8&Size=Tiny&rand=4337 "MONTEREY CANNERY ROW & MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM : The Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) was founded in 1984 and is located on the site of a former sardine cannery on Cannery Row of the Pacific Ocean shoreline in Monterey, California. It has an annual attendance of 1.8 million visitors. It holds thousands of plants and animals, representing 623 separate named species on display. The aquarium benefits by a high circulation of fresh ocean water which is obtained through pipes which pump it in continuously from Monterey Bay.
The centerpiece of the Ocean's Edge Wing, is a 10 meter (33-foot) high 333,000-US-gallon (1,260,000 l; 277,000 imp gal) tank for viewing California coastal marine life. In this tank, the aquarium was the first in the world to grow live California Giant Kelp. Visitors are able to inspect the creatures of the kelp forest at several levels in the building. The largest tank in the aquarium is a 1,200,000-US-gallon (4,500,000 l; 1,000,000 imp gal) tank in the Open Sea galleries (formerly the Outer Bay), which features one of the world's largest single-paned windows.
Sealife on exhibit includes stingrays, jellyfish, sea otters, and numerous other native marine species, which can be viewed above and below the waterline. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of very few in the world to exhibit both bluefin and yellowfin tuna. For displaying jellyfish, it uses a Kreisel tank, which creates a circular flow to support and suspend the jellies. The aquarium does not house mammals other than otters.
The aquarium occupies land at the end of Cannery Row (once Ocean View Avenue) in Monterey, at the site of the Hovden Cannery, a sardine cannery that helped to define the character of Monterey from the time it was built in 1916, to the day when it was the last cannery on the Row to close in 1973, after sardine fishing collapsed. This building was dismantled in 1980, but beginning in 2002 the Monterey Bay Aquarium has blown the original Hovden cannery steam whistle at noon each day to commemorate it.[4]
The aquarium's original building was designed by the architectural firm Esherick Homsey Dodge & Davis and opened on 20 October 1984. The aquarium's mission is \"to inspire conservation of the oceans.\" The aquarium's initial financial backing was provided by David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. Packard, an avid blacksmith, personally designed and created several exhibit elements for the aquarium at his forge in Big Sur, including the wave machines in the Kelp Forest and aviary.")
MONTEREY CANNERY ROW & MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM
The Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) was founded in 1984 and is located on ...
Updated: Jun 17, 2012 7:24am PST
