Shark Watch

Shark Watch
Originally uploaded by super rachel zana.

This past weekend our family took a vacation to Minneapolis. Ms. Crazy Preschooler had sharks on her mind, so sharks is what we did. We visited sharks from an underwater tunnel in the Mall of America, but even better yet was our trip to the Minnesota Zoo. While there were less sharks at the zoo, we were able to take our time and enjoy them more. (Also, the sharks seemed larger, with more vicious teeth.) After spending the first 3 hours of our zoo trip in the ocean exhibit gazing at the diversity of marine life, we decided that it would be quite possible to spend all day looking at sharks and dolphins with Ms. Crazy Preschooler and never even visit the rest of the zoo. We tore ourselves away, but not before snapping some interesting shark pictures.

I've always loved fish and swimming creatures of all kinds. Gazing into an undewater world just fascinates me: fish swimming in water so clear that it looks as if they are floating on air, brilliant colors flashing, fins and gills swishing at different speeds and angles. I love watching jelly fish slide in the water currents, starfish creep along rocks and sand, and seahorses clinging to long tubes of soggy grass as it sways in the abscence of an invisible breeze.