Monterey Bay Aquarium VLOG! - Day 5 - JAN 27 -GRAND CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE TRIP 2015

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Our day driving from San Francisco to Monterey and visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium. ***SUBSCRIBE (If you want...I can't tell you how to live your life)*** Mike's Twitter https://twitter.com/mikekarschti Mike's Instagram https://instagram.com/mikekarschti Periscope: Mike Karschti Snapchat: mikekarschti We started our morning by checking out of our hotel, The Tuscan, A BEST WESTERN PLUS Hotel. We drove through San Francisco and went down Lombard Street. We also drove by the "Full House" house on our way to the Twin Peaks lookout. After some last minute sight seeing we hoped on HWY 1 for a bit and stopped at Half Moon Bay for some breakfast/lunch. We continued our drive down the coastal highway made made a couple of stops on the beach and at Fort Ord Dunes State Park. Our room at the Best Western Plus Victorian Inn was not quite ready when we arrived in Monterey so we walked over to the Old Fisherman's Wharf for an early dinner. We saw some lazy seals hanging out along the way. We had a great meal at the Old Fisherman's Grotto. Nicole had a seafood pasta, I had the swordfish and we split some calamari. We walked back to the hotel to find out we had gotten one of the two Victorian suites at the hotel. It was amazing. After checking out our super fancy room we walked down Cannery Row to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) is a public aquarium located in Monterey, California, United States. The aquarium was founded in 1984 and is located on the site of a former sardine cannery on Cannery Row. It has an annual attendance of more than two million visitors. It holds thousands of plants and animals, representing more than 600 species on display. The aquarium benefits from a high circulation of fresh ocean water which is obtained through pipes which pump it in continuously from Monterey Bay. The centerpiece of the Ocean's Edge Wing, is a 28-foot-high (8.5 m), 333,000-US-gallon (1,260,000 l; 277,000 imp gal) tank for viewing California coastal marine life. In this tank, the aquarium was the first in the world to grow live California Giant Kelp. Visitors are able to inspect the creatures of the kelp forest at several levels in the building. The largest tank in the aquarium is a 1,200,000-U.S.-gallon (4,500,000 l; 1,000,000 imp gal) tank in the Open Sea galleries (formerly the Outer Bay), which features one of the world's largest single-paned windows. It is one of the few aquariums to hold the ocean sunfish in captivity. Sealife on exhibit includes stingrays, jellyfish, sea otters, and numerous other native marine species, which can be viewed above and below the waterline. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of very few in the world to exhibit both bluefin and yellowfin tuna. For displaying jellyfish, it uses a Kreisel tank, which creates a circular flow to support and suspend the jellies. The aquarium does not house mammals other than otters. After our time at the aquarium we grabbed some wine and cheese from the tasting going on in the lobby of our hotel. We brought some up to our room and watched some tv before bed. We had a long day of driving ahead of us. We were planning on driving to San Simon to visit Hearst Castle. We also wanted to check out Morro Bay on our way to Malibu. Subscribe to see all that! Thanks for watching! Subscribe if you want to see the next day! I shot this video with a Canon Rebel T2i, GoPro Hero Black Edition and iPhone