New employee orientation at Monterey Bay Aquarium

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@zackstern heh

[cwilbur@sfba.social]

@skinnylatte Is that Hopkins?

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@CWilbur Hopkins is to the left... a bit? out of frame. That's the American Cannery building that will soon be hotel

[cwilbur@sfba.social]

@skinnylatte Wow how things change! Anyway, you're not far from Butterfly Beach, which is named for, not Monarchs, but the "butterfly" shells that washed up on the beach (Blue Chiton segments) that look like little blue butterflies.

[cwilbur@sfba.social]

@skinnylatte Here’s a shot my great great uncle Ray took of Butterfly Beach (left) and Point Cabrillo (right) back in the late 19-aughts. He went on to become President of Stanford and was pretty instrumental in the development of the marine research station.

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@CWilbur oh wow!!

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

Pufffy

#Birds #Puffins

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

I get notes with fish on them

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

View from my lunch meeting

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

The kelp forest exhibit says something like ‘you always know it’s a rockfish when it’s just laying there not moving’

Same

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

Birds before work (I went through a secret door to find some cormorants)

#Birds #Monterey #Birding

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

I’m obsessed with the egg yolk jellies

#jellyfish #marine #monterey

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My wife is in town (very rare!) so we took a nice evening stroll from the aquarium to the Sandbar

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Bloody-belly comb jelly. Can’t believe I get to see this at work

(www.montereybayaquarium.org)

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

Black necked stilts at our onsite aviary (which rehabilitates and releases injured birds, and keeps those who can’t be released)

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The ‘wave crash’ feature at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

[amin@polymaths.social]

@skinnylatte

Oh, I've gotta visit this some day…

amends bucket list accordingly

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@amin lemme know! We can go whale watching

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GIANT sea bass

[ab@androiddev.social]

@skinnylatte WOAH!! Stop posting. I can't afford a trip there at the moment.