{"id":1974,"date":"2017-02-02T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/blogs\/news\/monterey-bay-aquarium\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:43:00","slug":"monterey-bay-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/blogs\/news\/monterey-bay-aquarium\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquarium de Monterey Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We recently strapped up and cruised down the almost criminally scenic Pacific Coast to knock off a crucial item on our bucket-list, the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Home to over 35,000 creatures representing close to 600 species, the aquarium draws around 2,000,000\u00a0visitors yearly from around the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00c9quip\u00e9s de l'essentiel, une carte et un\u00a0G Slim<\/a>, nous \u00e9tions pr\u00eats \u00e0 plonger t\u00eate premi\u00e8re dans les merveilles des profondeurs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Kelp Forest, an icon of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, is a 28-foot deep living underwater jungle. If properly timed, you can catch a glimpse of aquarium staff in full scuba gear feeding the residents of this fascinating underworld.<\/p>\n

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Everyone’s favorite, the aquarium’s Sea Otter Program, provides a full range of relief from injured otters to stranded otter pups. Here’s “Kit”, a surrogate mother, cleaning her face before a feeding session.<\/p>\n

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The stunning, vibrantly colored Urticina Piscivora, also known as the “fish-eating anemone”, gets its name by feasting on small fish and shrimp in order to survive.<\/p>\n

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The Jellyfish exhibit was a definite highlight of our adventure. The seemingly endless sea of Moon Jellyfish could capture your attention for hours on end.<\/p>\n

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Poissons-lune argent\u00e9s<\/em>\u00a0use\u00a0their reflective scales\u00a0to confuse any predators looking for a snack. Witnessing a school hypnotically sway in mesmerizing\u00a0circles was quite the trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Coral Reef exhibit was not of this world. Objects, textures and colors foreign to our daily field of vision placed us in what felt like the outer realms of existence where extra time was\u00a0necessary to distinguish living\u00a0des \u00eatres venus d'un paysage extraterrestre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The plastic pollution cycle is one of the biggest current threats to our ocean’s\u00a0future and well-being. Not only does the MBA host summits and campaigns\u00a0to raise awareness, but their Ocean Traveler’s Plastics<\/em>\u00a0gallery\u00a0features sculptures and art installations fashioned from everyday plastic items.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Inspir\u00e9 du classique sur bois de Hokusai\u00a0La Grande Vague de Kanagawa<\/em>\u00a0crois\u00e9 avec la grande plaque de d\u00e9chets du Pacifique, le collage de Chris Jordan Gyre\u00a0<\/em>is composed of 2.4 million pieces of plastic, which unfortunately also happens to be the number of pounds of plastic estimated to enter the world’s oceans EVERY HOUR.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Open Sea Tank is the aquarium’s largest exhibit, housing over 3,000 glittering Sardines, Scalloped Hammer-Head Sharks & Green Sea Turtles gracefully gliding amidst 1.2 million gallons of water.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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If you ever find yourself lucky enough to\u00a0visit\u00a0Monterey, CA, be sure to make time for a visit to the aquarium. On a quick side-note, new couvre-chefs G<\/a>\u00a0is available now, so keep up this new year at your freshest capacity with a new hat!<\/p>\n

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We recently strapped up and cruised down the almost criminally scenic Pacific Coast to knock off a crucial item on our bucket-list, the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Home to over 35,000 creatures representing close to 600 species, the aquarium draws around 2,000,000\u00a0visitors yearly from around the globe.\u00a0 Equipped\u00a0with the essentials, a map and a\u00a0G Slim, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}