Family Trip to MOTE Aquarium in Sarasota

We took a trip to Sarasota to check out the MOTE Aquarium before our reciprocal passes expire in a few weeks. They have an awesome aquarium. I loved the jelly fish and cuttle fish the most. Mommy had gotten stung by one of these the other day. It is called a sea nettle.

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We took a ecological boat tour of the Sarasota waterways.

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We saw bird rookeries.

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We even saw dolphins and some manatees.

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They dropped a drag net and brought in all sorts of sea life for us to look at.

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They had holding tanks to put the critters in.

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My favorites were the filefish and the….

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PUFFER FISH!

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