Sunday, July 22, 2012

The conference is over. And my flight out of Monterey  is about  to board. I  got a  chance last night to  go to the Aquarium here, which is great. This is a shot in one of the jellyfish tanks. Very  amazing. And we were able  to ask a whole lot of questions of  one of the staff here, who was extremely knowledgeable and enthusiastically answered all questions. I learned a lot about jellyfish, which, it turns out are pretty amazing. Turns out they are kind of on the threshold of  being animals  at  all. They have  no organs, and hardly any concentration of nerves  which could be considered a 'brain' of any kind. So beautiful though. This particular one also happens to be quite poisonous.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad you enjoyed Monterey Bob. Next time you are in San Diego we need to check out the tide pools- no otters here, though.

Anonymous said...

Bob, I have a similar picture of the same Jellies less than a week before! I just returned from taking some time driving up the coast and went through Monterrey. Apparently we were there at the same time!

Corbyn