Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Trip to Santa Barbara


A Day in Santa Barbara

The Monday of the week of Thanksgiving my mom and I took the kids to Santa Barbara for the day. Oh, what a busy day it was. We started by going to the Ty Warner Sea Center on the Pier.  The kids were able to touch sea stars, sand shark and sea slugs. We were able to lower a bucket to the bottom of the ocean, grab some dirt and bring it back up to see what we found. We saw a Pismo clam and a sand flea, both we were able to examine under the microscope – very cool. Next we had lunch at Moby Dickson on the pier, it was ok, wouldn’t recommend it. Then we caught a ride on the Land Shark, this is a 90 min tour of Santa Barbara and the second part of it is in the water. Very good tour and would recommend it especially for visitors. Then we headed over to the Park, I think its Alameda Park, it has a huge wooden paly structure that the kids love to play hide and seek at. Next stop was Ice Cream and then last stop was in Carpentaria where we hiked about a half-mile to a seal sanctuary. It was a great day but I was exhausted!!!  







We saw these nappers on the Land Shark

On the Land Shark

The seal sanctuary

At the park

Land Shark

The bucket is on its way up

1 comment:

  1. That looks like a lot of fun. I hiked to the seal sanctuary too, it was awesome. Wow what a great tour. Love to you Manma Net

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