Alan Hood

I have spent the last three days at Sea World in San Diego, a trip I took with my family to celebrate my birthday. Yes I am very very old but I don’t want to talk about that. Sea World and San Diego are my favorite places on earth. I have a small salt water reef tank that I take care of at home, so it is a great pleasure to see my tank on a truly grand scale. The shows at Sea World are a little cheesy and really based on getting the audience wet, but to see the way the animals are trained is really incredible.

The aquariums at Sea World make me drool; I can’t imagine what it would be like to have an aquarium on that kind of scale. Sea World has a few aquariums that house small sharks, sea turtles, and worthless fish like sea bass, but they also have one really spectacular aquarium with southern Pacific reef fishes that can only be described as spectacular. In aquariums the size that they have the reef fishes grow to their full adult size, unlike in smaller home aquariums, which brings about a real appreciation of what it would be like to see one of those reefs in person. During the couple of hours that I spent looking at that aquarium I heard at least 100 people come up to the aquarium and say “look its Dory form finding Nemo”. I find it fairly sad that people can look at something that incredible and only see that one fish as something worth looking at because Disney put it in one of their movies. I am a little over idealistic because I love them so much.

Weather lets talk a little bit about the weather. San Diego was perfect 74 degrees and sunny every day, but I live just outside of hell in Mesa AZ. The weather here is also sunny and warm if you call 115 degrees warm. Living in Mesa seems like the equivalent of living in an easy bake oven, well it is a little breezy today so really today its more like living in a convection oven. Good grief the heat is really starting to get to me. I have lived here for 14 years now and its time to move, next stop will either be Durango CO or San Diego CA.

That’s all for right now but I will be detailing the San Diego trip in a later post, the trip was great and of course the city is fantastic.