The Sea Centre

After getting up late I had some cereal for brekky, and then before i knew it Sherry was on her way home to pick me up for lunch. Its just so easy to eat over here. We went up to 3020 State St for Indian. We both had the buffet which consisted of endless rotti bread, spinach moosh, some curried cauliflower and onion, chicken korma and tandori chicken which was a bit on the poor side.

After lunch i got dropped down at Stearn's Wharf. I walked up and was in a bit of a weird mood - I was pretty introspective with Bob Dylan playing in my ears while I stood on the side of the pier looking at the sun reflect off the water and a seagull puddle around.

I went into the Sea Centre and it was pretty mad from the get go. I ended up staying at the first exhibit for abotu an hour. It was a pool with sharks about a foot and a half long that you could pat. It also hade a few rays in their as well. They felt kind of like wet dogs. Their hair was short and a little bit rough, but when you rubbed back the other way it was more like sand paper.

I then looked at the shark eggs. They were way cool. They feel like a leather pouch, sort of like a bats' wing. But the eggs themselves are much like normal eggs - with mini sharks swimming around inside a film with yokes and an opening at the bottom that allows sea water to flow.

I then walked over to look at this other fish that kept on following my every movement through the glass.

Then on to whats called 'The Wet Deck' - Which is basically just a palce where they have a hole in the floor allowing them to take samples out of the ocean for closer insepction. They lower this self closing clamp down and draw up samples. Would give a kayaker a nasty head ache thats for sure. The girl had a great eye for creatures with the tweezers. She put them under the microscope and you just see so much. Clams, Bugs, someting with spores on it. Hahaha - I remember the girl saying after my question 'What do you do with them once you are finished with them', 'We just dump them' haha. And also when i thought i had killed one of the little grubs she just goes 'it'll be alright' and basically just piffs it into the dish.

Upstairs was cool too. It was called - The Camoflage Area. Up here there was cool stuff like crabs which i could pick up. The first one fell off my hand twice - or more - ran off to get back in the war. The second one gripped in nice and hard. That was cool to feel how it did that - basically wrapping its legs around my fingers. When i moved them too much one time his front nippers kind of reared up to try and scare me.

The Octopus was awesome. The guy there said that it was almost as smart as a house cat. Apparantly it recognises different people and needs to toys to keep it from getting bored. They can also change their colour and their skin shape.

These ones stay about this size and are only released back intot the wild before they die so that they can reproduce. Some of them grow to be absolutley massive but not this particular sub-species. It's cool putting your hand out near the glass and watching the octopus put a tentacle near it to sort of shake it.

Also saw some cool jelly fish. These were cool as thanks to the light and the current in the tank.

I also watched a short film about how otter's are tracked. Was a bit off putting actually - seeing them drugged and then inserted with tracking devices. To me it sounds like something that aliens would do to us. Come down, beam us up, run tests, and then put us back into our beds so we woke up only 1/2 recalling anything happening.

I then went up to the Santa Barbara Shellfish Company to buy some more chowder, but instead I tried some lobster bisque. Okay but no where near is good as chowder.

I then caught the bus up State st and got home at about 5.30. Sherry had gotten home way before and saw i wasn't there so had gone looking for me on her bike. Whoops!

I made some tortillas for dinner and I like the look of that Zombieland movie. It doesnt look scary. Kind of like that House of the Dead Overkill Game. Which is scary enough for me.