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In 2007, the Monterey Bay Aquarium opened Wild About Otters with an exhibit dedicated to our favorite furry friends. If you’re thinking it’s the same old otters that lounge about in our coastal sanctuary, think again. The exhibition diplays freshwater otters who naturally dwell in exotic regions of Asia and Africa.
For more information about this exciting new exhibit, visit the Aquarium's website, or call 831-648-4800.
For only the third time, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has a young white shark on exhibit. The shark�a 4-foot-9-inch, 67 � pound male�was placed in the 1.2 million gallon Outer Bay exhibit on August 28. He'll remain in the exhibit as long as he's in good health and is small enough for the aquarium to return safely to the wild.
You can see the shark in person, or on the aquarium�s Outer Bay webcams. For more information, visit the Aquarium's website, or call 831-648-4800.
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 The most successful family vacations keep one essential component in mind: the grown-ups in the group have to feel as engaged, as excited, and as happy as the young ones � and vice versa. Theme park getaways often pall on parents by the umpteenth ride, while few children could trudge from art gallery to museum through sweltering city streets without becoming a bit surly. Monterey County, on the other hand, has amusements for children that make parents smile, and attractions for adults that will have the young ones asking for another visit.
Monterey has so many intriguing options, your most difficult moment will be deciding what to do each morning. There�s MY Museum, a real hands-on place where kids can make a tv program or run a country store, and the adventure playground of Dennis the Menace Park (created for the city by the creator of Dennis, Hank Ketcham). They can learn about our marine wildlife at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, then play �eye-spy� during a drive through Pebble Beach�s 17-Mile Drive, home to shoreline birds, harbor and elephant seals, and more. You may never hear them say �are we there yet?� again. At least until you leave Monterey...
Children can be reluctant shoppers. To coax a little cooperation, choose a destination that makes browsing as much fun as possible: Cannery Row. The old canneries are now packed with a dazzling array of shops, galleries and places to eat. You can reward patience while you do some bay-side wine tasting at the end of Steinbeck Plaza by sampling every known flavor of salt-water taffy, or honor their good humor while you tried on sportwear and silver jewelry in the American Tin Cannery with a kite or wind-toy.
Who knows? You might even pique their curiosity about how the Row got its name: buy them a copy of John Steinbeck�s Cannery Row to read on the way home.
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o Watch sea otters roll and tumble in the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
o Rent a four-wheeled surrey and cruise along the coast between Cannery Row and Fisherman's Wharf.
o �Treasure hunt� the galleries of the National Steinbeck Center.
o Pack a picnic and head to Marina State Beach to fly a kite or build a family-sized sandcastle.
o Pick luscious strawberries beneath the giant-sized field workers at The Farm.
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