Off the record - Craig Box

I work with Linux a lot, and the mascot is a penguin. So, here's a picture of a penguin taking a dump.

This, and other assorted pictures of fish, was taken at the New England Aquarium, on the Boston harbour. It's a great building, built around a 750,000-litre tank, simulating a Caribbean ocean reef.

They have:

• psychadelic jellyfish
• carefully indexed penguins
• Ugly Moray eels
• a highly territorial (and lazy) fish, that always hangs out in the same spot
• a giant sea turtle, who has been there since the opening in 1969
• hand fed fish
• angry sharks
• amazing displays of colour
• fish that can Not Be Seen
• fish being schooled
• a sharp-toothed piranha, that had a chunk taken out of by another sharp-toothed piranha
• SNAKE, SNAKE, IT'S A SNAKE!
• things you could touch (I can haz starfish?; Sara has crabs)

Out the back were three fur seals, which are always fun to see being trained and fed. Here's some feel-good video:

Tags: travel

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