Backstage at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Some of my personal highlights were being able to watch orphaned Sea Otter pups being cared for by scuba divers. These pups require 24-hour a day care until they are teenagers, at which time they are exposed to the open ocean adjacent to the aquarium and eventually released when they are able to fend for themselves. We watched one pup learning to eat a live crab, something a person never thinks about. We also visited the aquarium's special exhibit, Poison Creatures of the Sea. Here you had the chance to see all of the creepy crawly animals that you would want to avoid.
Ignorance is bliss.
In the afternoon we were treated to a visit and lecture at the Maritime Museum of Monterey at Fisherman's Wharf. Donna Penwell, Director Museum, gave us a brief history of the museum and then explained her interest in our organization. As collectors of antique mahogany boats, we have a strong connection with maritime history that we rarely think about. Ms. Penwell would like to enlist our cooperation in contributing information and artifacts to the museum, as well as occasionally displaying our boats there. Her suggestion was to arrange for a couple of our boats to be displayed in the lobby during the automobile Concourse D'Elegance at Pebble Beach.