California Family Destination Guide

The Birch Aquarium is located in La Jolla, California  on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. This kid friendly aquarium is smaller than it’s California counter parts, Aquarium of the Pacific and Montery Bay Aquarium, but is every bit as interesting. Displays  include a huge 70,000 gallon kelp forest and an outdoor tide-pool area where kids can can touch and learn about tide-pool animals.
Exhibits:
Hall of Fishes: Features more than 60 tanks of Pacific fishes and invertebrates from the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest to the tropical waters of Mexico and the Caribbean. The largest habitat is a 70,000-gallon kelp forest.

Shark Reef: 13,000-gallon tank devoted to shark species that inhabit tropical reef habitats, including whitetip and blacktip reef sharks, brownbanded bamboo sharks, Port Jackson sharks and wobbegongs. Interpretive panels on shark biology and conservation accompany the reef.

Tide Pool Plaza:Features three living tide pools where visitors can touch and learn about inhabitants with docents. Windows in the habitats provide up-close views of starfish, hermit crabs, sea cucumbers, lobsters and other animals local to San Diego’s tide pools. Pools overlook La Jolla and the Pacific Ocean.

Birch Aquarium at Scripps : 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla, CA 92037 – Open 9:00 am to 5:00 pm daily Telephone (858) 534-FISH Open 9 -5 daily.

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