Sunday January 6th
We had rain overnight and the temperature was pretty chilly this morning - low 30's. Cathey is less than impressed with my bargain campsite. We decided that we would go and see the aquarium today and hit the road tomorrow for Arizona. Enough of this damp cold and overcast sky!
The Aquarium was built in the 1980's with money from the Packard family (of Hewlett-Packard) and was built on the site of one of the old sardine canneries made famous by John Steinbeck in his book "Cannery Row." There were a number of sardine canneries in Monterrey from 1912 through the 1960's when the sardines were fished out. They have preserved the boilers from the cannery and various pieces of plant equipment that exhibit the process of canning sardines.
The parts of the aquarium that I found most fascinating were the jelly fish and the deep kelp tanks that exhibit how sea creatures hide among the kelp at different levels. Its a pretty impressive place but the really interesting stuff is the research that is done on sea creatures at their research center. The research center is a joint venture with the U of C and is located in Moss Landing, where we stayed Friday night.
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