Mandalay Bay Shark Reef

A lot of these pictures are blurry.  This is in part due to my lack of expertise with a camera, but it is also due to the fact that I was taking the shots thorugh thick plexiglass.

If a concert benefit were held on behalf of large reptiles, would it be called Gator-Aid?

It's hard to take pictures of fish that are just zooming by in front of you.  I'm not sure how I got this fish as clearly as I did, as you can tell by the background that he was really booking.

I wanted to get video of the stingrays, which was difficult because they kept swimming out of camera shot as soon as I started filming.  This is the best little segment I could get.

The Shark Reef had a number of pseudo-Peruvian sculptures, for atmosphere.

Strix taking pictures as a number of brightly colored fish swim around her.

You've heard of the Tunnel of Love?  Well, it's like that.  Except, with fish.

This is the clearest picture of this fish I could get, and I'm not lion.

These jellyfish know how to have fun, for invertebrates with no central nervous system.  Maybe that's the secret - I wish I didn't have a central nervous system.

This is what the jellyfish look like after a night of raving.  This is blurry as hell.  I couldn't use a flash, because it would have just relfected off the plexiglass, so the camera tried to compensate by increasing the exposure time, but the effect is actually kind of neat, I think.

More video of swimming jellyfish.  I could have stood all day and watched these things.  They were mesmerizing.

That's all for now.  Until tomorrow, keep smiling.