continued… Looking down at the main pool as we climbed higher.

There weren’t many exhibits where you could touch the creatures, but there were a few. We believe this was an Atlantic horseshoe crab.

These moon jellyfish were common in the Chesapeake and had kept us from trying to swim in the water. The tops of their heads don’t have stingers, just the tentacles.

From there, it branched out into species that lived in other region. One of the fun exhibits was on anemones.

Another fun exhibit were the Puffin birds.

One of the most interesting displays was the Amazon river forest because it had such a diverse array of both plants and creatures.

The next tank also had some interesting creatures. There is a green boa to the left, two green waxy tree frogs to the middle-left, and a red poison dart frog on the trunk below the green frogs.

There was a carcass from a 50-ton fin whale suspended from the ceiling.

The path took us up an escalator to a rooftop tropical rain forest. It was a two-story forest.

The bottom floor had tanks with aquatic creatures.

The second story platform offered close up views of the creatures that lived in the trees. And they were spectacular!

From the rooftop platform, we descended back down to the rainforest floor, which had a line with small tanks displaying creatures that were too small to see in the wild (and some too poisonous to let out).

We exited the rooftop rainforest. Back in the building, we found ourselves at the top of a huge multi-story tank.

We walked down a ramp surrounded on all sides by the massive fish tank.

So many cool creatures swam by.

And we also walked by several creatures who were just hanging out and waiting for the fish to come to them.

We knew we were on the second floor when we could see people on the other side of the tank.

The path ended at the first floor, where we found ourselves looking up at the same coral reef that we’d been looking down at when we’d entered the exhibit.

When we exited the exhibit, we thought that was the whole aquarium. It turned out to be only one small part of it. To be continued…