underwater zoo

I’ve been trying to get to the National Aquarium in Baltimore since the ‘90s. I missed breakfast with the Belugas back in ‘92. (Still feeling shame for that one!) Twenty five years later I made it. It is an amazing thing, being able to see under water without scuba gear. The animals in the exhibit seem happy enough. Although ones in the little glass boxes that have a habitat seem really really aware of the folks staring at them through double panes of glass (and the kids and the banging and the screaming). I’m not a fan of most zoos, but I get the benefit of them, I do, I just worry about things - like are the poison dart frogs as ok as if they were in the rainforest they came from? I hope the animals in this exhibit are rescues, and are having a better quality of life. I’m going with that.