August 25: Marineland

Everyone loves Marineland!

This is the first picture from Marineland. It's a snail, on the paved walkway. For some reason my Dad felt this was intresting enough to take a picture of. I would have rather had a picture of Darcy as she picked up the snails and threw them off the path so they wouldn't get crushed.








The deer are vicious, vicious creatures.


They had a black bear 'habitat', which bothered me for three reasons.



Reason #1: Look how low those walls are. I find it hard to believe they don't just climb out.



Reason #2: They have way too many bears for their cage. There were about twenty.



Reason #3: You can feed the bears! Now having grown up all my life hearing "Don't feed the bears", this is just wrong.





Yes, I screwed up the courage to go on this ride. It actually wasn't that bad. Actually, it was kinda fun.



And, of course, we saw whales.

My final verdict: The rides were good but the conditions the animals were kept in were deplorable. I won't go again unless they start treating their animals better.