Let the dog in!

Spring was springing out all around here, so we trekked via ferry to the Seattle Aquarium.  All their regular exhibits were open with new ones coming this summer.  (Is the IMAX theater gone for good from there, though, as a result of all the renovations?  No one mentions that…..)  I brought my Canon digital elph and took many photos.  Out of about 2,487, I have these five to show for it. If you use a flash inside with all the tanks, you get bupkiss.  If you don’t use a flash, you get dark, blurry, greenish shots.  Plus, if you do go for the flash, you can’t take another picture for oh, I don’t know, 10-15 minutes with these great digital cameras…..   And forget about getting a decent shot of a seal or otter;  those guys are speed demons.  But who knew octopus move so fast?  Or how about those seahorses?  That tiny, twittering fan on their backs moves them fast enough to ruin about a dozen shots. 

And I have not even gotten to the issue of getting my Kid to stop moving enough to take a decent pose.  That’s a given, inside or outside.  My spouse would say, it must be that sub-par equipment you are using, Hon.  You must need a new camera.  Let’s go shopping….  

On the upside, we fed sea urchins slippery bits of kelp.  They grabbed them quickly with their spikes (as fast as you could if you had long spikes for fingers).  Sorry, no pictures of that either since they were resting in a very dark, shadowy area of a shallow pond surrounded by glass…..  At least the oystercatcher gave me the stare-down long enough to get a shot of him (he was quasi-outside).

Yes, all the photo frustration makes one really appreciate a nice, still starfish, or two.

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