SHARK WEEK!
Starting July 28th, this year’s Shark Week should be bigger and better than ever! Check out some fun places to get close, maybe too close, to the majestic creatures that fascinate children and adults, alike!
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The Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park, Dallas
In cooperation with the Dallas Zoo, the Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park offers visitors the chance to see aquatic animals with the child’s perspective in mind. Tanks are built at child’s eye level, including the touch tanks! Lots of interactive exhibits allow children to learn about creatures of the deep and not so deep!
Check their schedule for the weekly Shark feeding shows!
Click HERE to read more!
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The Dallas World Aquarium
Located in the Dallas Arts District, offers Shark feeding daily at 11:30am and 4:30pm! To learn more, click HERE.
You’ll love this fun restaurant in Downtown Houston, with an aquarium, carnival rides, you can feed the stingrays at Stingray Bay and even dine next to the tanks!
Sea World San Antonio
You could spend days seeing all the sights at Sea World San Antonio, but for sharks, you must visit the shark habitat! Pictures and information of each of the sharks living inside the 450,000 gallon tank, and a close enough view to make you appreciate what swim in the seas! Click HERE for more to do at SeaWorld!
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Texas State Aquarium, Corpus Christi
The H-E-B Caribbean Sea Shark exhibit combines a thrilling look at the ocean’s most infamous predators with the experience of diving a real-life Caribbean shipwreck, all without having to actually get wet. An overlook in the jungle level gives guests their first look at the reef sharks swimming below the surface, a sight that’s terrified and mystified ocean explorers for generations.
Click HERE to read more!
Sea Center Texas, Lake Jackson
Operated by Texas Parks and Wildlife. Tours are offered Tues. – Sunday, and the largest Redfish hatchery in the world. Click HERE to visit their website.
Moody Gardens, Galveston
The newly renovated Aquarium Pyramid is now open for summer, and offers guest a chance to explore Journey to New Depths! Click HERE to read more.
SEA LIFE Grapevine Aquarium
Prepare for astonishingly close views of everything from humble starfish and seahorses to graceful rays, to get any closer you would have to get wet!
- Amazing 360° Underwater Ocean Tunnel
- 30 Incredible Displays
- More than 5,000 Sea Creatures
- Take the Shark Walk if you’re brave enough
- Don’t miss Ocean Talk every day at 1pm and 5pm!
Click HERE for more information!
Keep Having Fun in the Texas Sun!
Michelle
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