Trip to the Aquarium

A few days ago, I accompanied my son's first-grade class on a field trip to the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga. Although a little tiring, the trip was pretty enjoyable. Getting first-graders to go slowly to admire and watch aquatic and marine life (not to mention frogs, turtles and snakes) is rather difficult, but a good time was had by all.

Working with an inexpensive camera with flash turned off generally results in pictures not-so-great, and true to form, most of the ones I took didn't come out too well. But a couple of them did:

The West Coast Sea Nettle (Jellyfish):


The Sandbar Shark:


Gentoo Penguins:


And a young American Alligator:


All in all, an enjoyable trip (not to mention an excuse to post to the blog).