Friday Night Photos Travelogue Pt7 Edition
Welcome to Friday Night Photos everyone. Your once a week break from the daily madness of the crazy world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music, or whatever else you find of interest that helps you escape the madness.
Tonight we close out the travelogue series back where it began in Monterey, with a visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This was my first visit to the aquarium. Compared to the Birch Aquarium here in San Diego, the MB aquarium is absolutely huge. I only saw a fraction of what was there and definitely want to go back again. I found the jellyfish to be the most captivating exhibit. You could spend a couple of hours just watching their underwater ballet.
"Creature From The Blue Lagoon" Purple-striped Jelly
"Not on my pizza" Northern Anchovies
Spotted Comb Jelly
Black Rockfish
"Alien Invasion" Sea Nettles
"Alabaster Lamp" Purple-stripped Jelly
"Screen Saver"
"Turn On Your Heartlight" Spotted Comb Jelly
Spiny Lobster
"They Came From Above" Sea Nettles
Garibaldi
"Ballerina" Purple-striped Jelly
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There can be only one music-video for The Monterey Bay Aquarium:
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Hi, Moonbat
Cool video. Great music to compliment the very strange and interesting looking critters. Thanks for sharing.
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Hi Moonbat
You couldn't have picked a better piece to compliment the subject. The flute is a wonderful sound to accompany the movement of the jellyfish. Thank you also for the pleasure of listening to Shadowfax again.
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This used to play in a kiosk at the Aquarium, which I grew up within day-trip distance of; I've been there many times, and that video and I go way back.
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@The Liberal Moonbat Great photos, Sp.
Great photos, Sp. Shadowfax is one of my favorite fusion bands.
I got stung by Sea Nettles swimming in the Chesapeake Bay as a kid. The stings hurt just as they should. I didn't swim in that area again. Rec'd!! Have a safe and Happy Holiday, too.
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Hi, obf
Thanks for the Shadowfax. I've never heard of them. The song you posted reminds me of music you would hear on the soundtrack of an 80's movie dealing with the 20something crowd.
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Hi Social
Such beautiful photos of such mysterious and ethereal creatures. I wouldn't want to be hugged by one though. They are all so uniquely shaped and coloured. The transparent ones and patterns of dots are fascinating. I wonder what the dots are, camouflage, decoration, or part of their function?
Thanks Social, much appreciated. I'd love to see that exhibit in person. Did you also film them?
Thank you, Janis
I bet being hugged by one would be a memorable experience. Just not in a good way. I don't know why they are marked and colored the way they are. I do know they are fascinating to watch.
I don't have any video of them but here's a link to their webcam.
https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams/jelly-cam
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You're more than welcome
Thank you for linking to the live cams, one can spend some good time being mesmerised by them.
The live cams are great for marketing
Watching the jellycam got me to add the aquarium to my list of places to visit while I was in the Bay Area.
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My wife and I
were on a dive vacation in tropical waters years ago, and we ended one dive by accidentally surfacing though a big cloud of freshly-spawned baby jellies. They were nearly too small to see, but there were thousands of them.
Since the water was warm, we were diving in bathing suits only- no wetsuits for protection. As a result, I’ve now been stung by jellies in places that I didn’t even realize were places. It is funny, looking back on it now- but we did quite the dance when we got back on the dive boat, until they broke out the jug of vinegar they kept on board for just such occasions. Woof.
After that experience, I never dived anywhere, no matter how warm, without wearing at least a 2mm wetsuit… (;-)
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Hi, ufs
Your experience with jellyfish definitely falls into the memorable, but not in a good way, category. Good thing the boat crew had the cure.
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Hi all
Decorated by nature
It’s one of New Zealand's gifts of nature, and celebration of the holidays. It’s the Pohutakawa tree, whose other name is the Christmas tree.The flowers are bright red balls of colour on large broad trees.
be well all and enjoy the holidays
Hi, Janis
Mother Nature did a nice job of decorating for the holidays. The Pohutakawa tree reminds me of bottlebrush. Happy holidays to you, too.
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We have Bottlebrush here too
They are related. The Bottlebrush are from Australia, and the Pohutakawa are endemic to NZ. The Tui birds love them equally.
beautiful Janis!
Hi Janis,
It is beautiful, whatever they call it. What a red!
Nature makes the best gifts.
happy trails!
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hi d!
You couldn't be more right, most of my favourite gifts are from nature. Thank you for all your personal naturalistic gifts ; ).
Hi all, Hi SP!
Hi all, Hi SP!
Great Jelly photos SP! Beautiful creatures. Those Purple-striped ones often would wash up on shore in socal, sometimes making it dangerous to walk barefoot on the sand. The purple is gerat. Love those Garabaldi too, the CA state saltwater fish. Have kept one, seen hundreds if not thousands. They were very common along King Harbor breakwater in Redondo Beach, and off San Pedro.
Nice tune too. Private Idaho was another good B-52 song.
Unfortunately my vision is impaired now for the time being... so hard to see , esp. this gray text.
Thanks for the great photos SP! Beautiful work!
happy trails all!
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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Hi, dystopian
I've been fortunate and haven't come across any jelly's on the beach or in the water. Love Private Idaho, definitely another great B52's song. Sorry to hear about your vision. Hope it's nothing serious.
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Hi d
I hope your impaired vision is soon restored to clarity, and your eyes see as clearly again as your ever- bright heart.
Great photos, as usual SP
The jellies are so colorful.
The jungle shot from Janis b reminds me of my trip to the North Island back in 2000. Did some diving around Poor Knights Isle, just stunning scenery above and below the surface. Even did the underground river rafting through the glow worm cavern.
Cherished memories.
I spoke last week in my OT regarding the five year anniversary of spotting Salmon in Otter Creek through my farming parcel happening this week.
Well, the creek was full of them today, as E2 and I stood and watched a score of them spawn just five feet below us. The biggest one was nearly 3' and fatter than my arm.
I took some pics and video with my old Samsung dumbphone and sent them to my son, but he said the quality was really poor.
Still working on conning my brother out of his digital set-up that he never uses. I would sure put that stuff to good use and join the fun here every Friday.
E2 has a brother with a brand new computerized digital telescope that he has never used except in his back yard in the full glare of big city light pollution. I have tried to coax him into join us out in the Oregon outback for some real Dark Skies viewing, but he seems to have lost interest in using it.
She is working on him.
Wish us luck.
Thanks for all the Friday night photos.
One of my favorite nights.
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Hi, e1
Glad to hear the Salmon returned and you had the opportunity to watch them spawn. Even if the photos didn't turn out great, you still have the memory of watching them. Hope you're able to get your brothers camera kit and get your BIL to join you with his telescope.
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Hi earthling
How wonderful that you got to explore one of NZ's natural wonders. I have heard from others as well how special an experience it is.
https://www.newzealand.com/nz/poor-knights-islands/
SocialProgreessive, thank you so much for your
Friday Night Photo Fun and all the commenters too. Your photos are a wonder and an inspiration. You cover so many different types of subject to excellent effect.
Merry Christmas to all here on Friday night. Solstice is happening once again and for good measure the weak southern sun is peeking out of the grey mist.
We leave our strings of Christmas lights on the front of the house night and day on sparkly garlands. The sun shows the garlands, the fog and mist are dark enough to show us the lit strands.
We also invested in a fake Birch tree with tiny warm led lights which have various settings. the bonus has been the ability to locate our house on our daily 5km walks over the hills and gullys.
Thanks again for all you do.
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Merci for the wonderful compliment, Dawn
Hope you have a Merry Christmas as well.
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Great photos SP!
Here's a few shots from the TN aquarium in Chattanooga.
These were bioluminescent...
Interesting open stomached critters.
Thanks for the great photos!
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Hi, Lo
Nice selection of Jelly's. Definitely interesting critters. That second one looks like a mushroom cloud. With the interesting times we are living in right now, hopefully that will be the closest thing to a mushroom cloud any of us see in our lifetime.
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@Socialprogressive Sailing and fishing
Sailing and fishing made me an environmentalist. Walking along the seashore and avoiding the jellyfish and Portuguese Man-O-Wars. Even dead, the blue jellybags had a serious sting to them. The crisis in climate change is what worries me the most. FL is a prime exhibit for it. Greetings for a Peaceful Season, you all.
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Climate change will cause a lot of problems
but I'm more concerned with how our bad US foreign policy will mess things up worse than climate change.
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