The Georgia Aquarium (VERY Photo Intense)
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Untamed12
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I recently took the behind the scenes tour for my 2nd time, and I can't recommend it anymore.
You no longer get the opportunity to go out on the catwalk over the OV exhibit. (I guess a manta jumped and crashed into the catwalk, so they rarely use it anymore). That was a highlight of the tour that isn't there anymore, sadly.
I find that the tour, unfortunately, gets dumbed down to appealing to 5 year olds. At one point, the tour consisted of encouraging children to roll down the hallway. I don't need to pay for a tour to see that. The tour guides do not have the expertise necessary to answer the kind of questions that a hobbiest might ask...(although they will makes notes and find you the answers later, which I appreciated)
They also now stop the tour so that everyone can get their picture taken individually in front of the fence beside the OV exhibit. Silly.
I suggested that the GA consider creating a tour specifically for hobbiests. As is, I won't go on the behind the scenes tour again.
btw...They are clearly struggling with the reef exhibit. Given the number of years it has been running, I expected to see some large coral formations...but they must have had a setback or are finding it difficult to grow coral at all. I loved seeing the full grown vlamingis and unicorns...but it looks more like FOWLR at this point.
You no longer get the opportunity to go out on the catwalk over the OV exhibit. (I guess a manta jumped and crashed into the catwalk, so they rarely use it anymore). That was a highlight of the tour that isn't there anymore, sadly.
I find that the tour, unfortunately, gets dumbed down to appealing to 5 year olds. At one point, the tour consisted of encouraging children to roll down the hallway. I don't need to pay for a tour to see that. The tour guides do not have the expertise necessary to answer the kind of questions that a hobbiest might ask...(although they will makes notes and find you the answers later, which I appreciated)
They also now stop the tour so that everyone can get their picture taken individually in front of the fence beside the OV exhibit. Silly.
I suggested that the GA consider creating a tour specifically for hobbiests. As is, I won't go on the behind the scenes tour again.
btw...They are clearly struggling with the reef exhibit. Given the number of years it has been running, I expected to see some large coral formations...but they must have had a setback or are finding it difficult to grow coral at all. I loved seeing the full grown vlamingis and unicorns...but it looks more like FOWLR at this point.
