For the Christmas break, Sage and her children came down to visit with us, as well as deliver our Christmas present, a puppy. While they were down here we decided to show them a few fun things to do here in Fort Pierce. First we went to the local Aquarium to check out the cool fish and touch tank.

The person in charge of the Aquarium while we were there was kind enough to give all the kids free pinwheels, to their delight.!!

Here are some pretty pictures of fish, see if you can spot them in the pictures.

Do you see the seahorse in the picture above? Or the Hermit crab below?

In this tank they had a few fish characters from the movie "Finding Nemo". Above is the cleaner shrimp, and below is a clown fish. They used to have a blue Tang, to represent Dori, but I think it must have passed away. :(

These are not real birds but part of a scene of natural Florida section.

Here Brenna and Aurelia are showing off the glowing Jellyfish called "Aurelia...." The ... is in there because I don't remember the rest of the proper name for the Jellies. That's what happens when I don't post the pictures for so long after I take them.... Oh well. I still thought it was neat that they had her name.

Here is the explorer part of the center. If you can't look through the microscope very well, like me, then you can look at the specimen on screen. I thought it was pretty cool.

Corby,Stephen, and Mary are cute playing with the puzzles while Brenna and Conner colors a pretty picture.

Above, the lion fish, is said that if you were to touch the spiky fins, you can die, they are so poisonous. Below are some really cool sea anemones.

Above is another Seahorse, can you see it? Below are some more fish.

The next six pictures are example of what you get to touch in the touch tank.

Sea Urchin

Hermit Crab

Conch

Sea Cucumber

Starfish, a.k.a. Sea Star

David showing you how it is done.

Of course you have to visit the gift shop.