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Parks and Outdoors Review of Ripley's Aquarium

Away Travel Expert: Mike Sigalas

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ParksExpert Rating Recommended for:
Sustainable Travel

Parks and OutdoorsExpert Tips & Helpful Hints

• As you pass the Amazonian piranhas and head down into the Rainbow Rock area, your path here is designed to mirror the experience of a person who starts out on shore and then plunges into the ocean, gradually probing to its lowest depths.
• Be sure to pet some of the de-barbed Atlantic rays, Southern rays, Cow-Nose rays, and Spotted Eagle rays up in the Ray Bay touch tank. If nothing else, you'll learn to recognize the feel of one, and this might help give you time to react if you inadvertently step on one (barb attached) in the surf. The Bay also includes Bonnet-Head sharks, which aren't nearly as cute as they sound.
• By far, the star of the Aquarium is its 330-foot-long shark tunnel. Conveyor belts carry wide-eyed (and camera-clicking) travelers alongside and beneath mammoth tiger, nurse, and sawtooth sharks.

Family Review of Ripley's Aquarium

Away Travel Expert: Candyce H. Stapen

FamilyExpert Rating Recommended for:
Children of all ages

FamilyExpert Tips & Helpful Hints

• If you have young children, don't miss the See-for-Yourself Discovery Center.