Tennessee Aquarium

Today we visited the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga. We had seen the buildings from the river during our dinner cruise a few nights ago. This was one of the finest aquariums I've ever visited. There are two buildings, one for ocean fish and another for fresh water, mostly river, fish. There were "petting" tanks for rays and special attractions for ecosystems surrounding bodies of water. We also took in an iMax 3D showing about great white sharks, which focused on sharks as threatened species and provided lots of good information about efforts to protect the great whites.

Henry liked this "blown up" concrete section near the entrance to one building.

There were several species of rays I'd never seen before.

Dory was there, which pleased Henry, of course.

There was a butterfly garden.

And Henry thought these signs at the exit from that area were funny.

Here he is inside an exhibit of piranhas.

We have one more day here consisting mostly of LCCA events, and then we head back for home on Saturday.