Maybe it shows I spend a lot of time looking at jellyfish but I got in this morning and was like NEW JELLY

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Pacific sardines

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I went for a walk at lunch

#Monterey #MontereyBayAquarium #Kelp

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I met some of my coworkers

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I love going to see the jellies

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A coworker showed me her anglerfish plush toy

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Many of my days in Monterey kick off here. It’s the coffee spot near work I tend to have breakfast meetings at, and also the mid point stop on my bike ride there.

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Some days I feel like I’m in a John Steinbeck novel

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More jelly

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Can’t believe I get to see penguins while I’m at work

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View from an office window (and I work in one of the ‘boring’ office buildings, not at the main aquarium). They all have pretty good views I think

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Pufffy

#Birds #Puffins

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I get notes with fish on them

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View from my lunch meeting

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The kelp forest exhibit says something like ‘you always know it’s a rockfish when it’s just laying there not moving’

Same

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Birds before work (I went through a secret door to find some cormorants)

#Birds #Monterey #Birding

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I’m obsessed with the egg yolk jellies

#jellyfish #marine #monterey

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My wife is in town (very rare!) so we took a nice evening stroll from the aquarium to the Sandbar

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Bloody-belly comb jelly. Can’t believe I get to see this at work

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/bloodybelly-comb-jelly

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Black necked stilts at our onsite aviary (which rehabilitates and releases injured birds, and keeps those who can’t be released)

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The ‘wave crash’ feature at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

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GIANT sea bass

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I love this pic I took of the avocet this morning. I went to the aviary this morning before we opened and I had the whole place to myself

#Birding #Avocet #Shorebirds

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Baby birb (snowy plover)

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I like to take the scenic route to my office (past the kelp forest)

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The back deck when there’s no one there is really cool

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I don’t know if you know how big this tank is

You can also se inside here https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams/kelp-forest-cam

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The round blob in the top center is a southern sea otter frolicking by herself

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Lunch with a view

#Birding #Cormorants

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Seen around the office.

1. Sunfish costume (!!)
2. Penguin plushie

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Pacific sardines at the roundabout

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I sea you

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Same window, a few seconds apart

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The world feels weird. I’m just going to work by a window

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I love that this penguin waddled over to ‘chat’

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I need to not buy all the things at the store

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Honk.

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I think I am floundering (but actually it’s a mola mola)

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I went to hang out with my friend, Ray

(You can watch the live stream too: https://www.youtube.com/live/QXhVdEyLRT0)

#Marine #Monterey #MontereyBayAquarium

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A coworker was waving at me from inside the shark tank.

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I went to see my friend. He’s the bass.

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Black sea nettles

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/jellies

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My evening commute (I waited till closing time and for all guests to leave, then I went to hang out at the open sea exhibit by myself)

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I saw this on a coworker’s desk (she works with the birds)

#Birds #Birding #Puffins

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Room with a view

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Let me kelp you

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I have puffins at my workplace

#Birds #Birding #Puffins #Marine

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I didn’t realize I loved sea nettles and jellyfish so much

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Shark

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Ray of hope

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Sardines

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Do the black sea nettles know they’re beautiful

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