Holding is allowed! The historic Key West Aquarium’s touch tank, home to conchs, sea stars, giant hermit crabs and more, introduces your little ones to these beautiful creatures and allows them to gently pick them up. Make sure to allow time for a family-friendly boat tour with the Center, where you can kick back and relax, hunt for shells and snorkel. The fun includes interactive exhibits and a touch tank. The Loxahatchee River Center features fresh and saltwater aquariums where your gang can meet the interesting creatures that live in Florida’s first National Wild and Scenic River. With birthday parties, breakfast programs, events, boat tours, kayaking, research charters, events and more, Mote invites you to immerse yourself in experiencing the ocean and its wonders. Other tanks include Jewels of the Sea, Seahorse Corral, Venomous Beauties, and a Touch Tank.ĭive into the secrets of the sea with touch pools, working labs and oh-so-high-tech interactive exhibits at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, heralded worldwide for its research. It also boasts Aquariums of the Atlantic, which is home to Shipwreck Cove, a 3,500-gallon predator tank teeming with sharks, a giant spotted moray eel, and fierce barracudas. Situated in West Palm Beach, The COX Science Center and Aquarium offers laser light shows, nights at the museum, the county’s only public observatory, and literally too much more to list. As if that’s not enough, the center’s planning a $6.5 million expansion, with the addition of a new "Ocean EcoCenter" building, pedestrian bridges over the existing Game Fish Lagoon and a waterworks exploration zone. Snuggled between the Indian River and the Atlantic Ocean on Hutchison Island, the Florida Oceanographic Society is a 57-acre marine life nature center that offers a nature trails, a 750,000-gallon Game Fish Lagoon, a Sea Turtle Pavilion, Children's Activity Pavilion, Sea Star Touch Tank Pavilion, Rays on the Reef Ray Pavilion, and a Visitors Center. A kayak or boat tour with a Rookery Bay Reserve naturalist is another way the Reserve makes learning enjoyable. Its Environmental Learning Center, located in Naples, houses a visitor center complete with an interactive 2,300-gallon mangrove aquarium as well as moon jelly and marine life exhibits. Kayakers, campers, beachgoers and anglers love Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, but it offers more than outstanding recreational activities. IMAG History & Science Center, located in Fort Myers, promises that ‘the fun never ends.’ Your gang is likely to agree the Center features interactive virtual reality exhibits, a “SEA-to-See” Touch Tank, opportunities to hand-feed stingrays, live animal encounters, explosive chemistry, wild physics, wacky engineering shows, and 3D films in the Theater-in-the-Tank. Lucie County Aquarium in Fort Pierce, which includes a spectacular living model of a Caribbean coral reef ecosystem, a touch tank and hands-on interactive activities. Best of all, you can climb in the water with the world’s most beloved marine animal, the dolphin, for a once-in-a lifetime thrill.ĭiscover the underwater worlds of the Indian River Lagoon and Atlantic Ocean at The Smithsonian Exhibit at the St. The Conservation Outpost teaches visitors about wildlife rescue and marine animal care. The sea life exhibits are world-class, showcasing manatees, sea turtles, penguins, rays and more. Children of all ages will enjoy its awe-inspiring dolphin and sea lion shows. Located a few waves west of downtown Miami, you’ll find The Miami Seaquarium, a 38-acre oceanarium, on the island of Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay.
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