Marine Biologist?

 Our last day of 4-H Animal Science Day Camp has the potential to get us all wet.  However our youth were a little too smart for that.  Our day started with a trip to Ripley's Aquarium in Myrtle Beach.  This is always a fun trip for our youth becuase they have a great variety of Marine Life.   

  Our youth had the chance to see all types of different fish from around the world.  There are piranhas from South America, clown fish from the salt reef, and tiger fish.  Some of the fish they got to see are very dangerous while others are not the prettiest but have important jobs.

  Probably one of our favorite attractions wsa the shark tank.  Being able to go through a tube that allows sharks to swim around you is amazing.  It is kind of fun to try to figure out the types of sharks like hammer heads, saw tooth, and even none shark creatures are in the tank like huge sea turtles.

  This year Ripley's has a special Penguin habitat.  This is really cool becuase you get to see King Penguins up close and personal.  All of the penguins have tags with their names on them.  The red tags represent female penguins and the blue tags males.  While we were there the penguins had some play time with a unique toy, ice cubes.  Some of them jumped into the water and it was amazing how fast they moved in the water.

   After lunch and a little more looking around we headed up the road to Alligator Adventures.  This place is really cool and has Alligators, Crocodiles (there is a difference) wombats, land turtles, and other really cool reptiles.  While there, we saw the alligators get fed with raw chicken.  We saw a really huge alligator, and an albino alligator.  It is best that the albino lives in captivity because it can't camouflaged its self in the wild.  We also learned that they are really rare.

  After all that fun we headed back home to leave notes about our favorite and not so favorite parts of camp this week.  It was good to be back face to face and our youth did great jobs at keeping masks on and following directions.  Hope are youth will stay tuned becuase all these photos are about to be turned into a special gift for our youth.