July 10 at the Camden Aquarium

After the Franklin Institute we went to Camden Aquarium (Camden is across the river from Philadelphia).

 The Aquarium had some fun stuff.

The first image is Ann with the penguins.

This aquarium allowed people to touch the manta rays.  That is fun but I've done that before.

However, it also lets you touch sharks - although only with two fingers and not on their fins and only little sharks (about 2 feet long). 


Both sharks and manta rays have mouths that are on their bottom side as they are swimming, so its not that dangerous. 

The second picture shows two hippos that were in their own tank.

The third picture shows me pointing at one of the three dozen great white sharks they have in the big shark tank (a small school of little fish is in back of me).  They also have a shark tunnel (like the one in Atlanta) and a shark bridge. The latter is for you to walk over the shark tank (rope on both sides protects you from falling although there is a pretty good sway). 


The final image shows Philadelphia as seen from the promenade just outside the aquarium.  The river is the Delaware.