Mandalay Bay Aquarium

Yeah, I know, I'm way past due on posting Las Vegas pictures. Sometimes there are just so many to go through!

Once we had set the date, my sister and I started thinking of what we wanted to do in Las Vegas. I decided to look up aquariums, and discovered there was one at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. That went on my To Do list. Mary-Anne likes mermaids and aquariums too, so that's where we went on Tuesday morning.

I'd never ridden a monorail before, but we ended up taking two to get to the hotel. It was quite a hike through the hotel but we persevered and got there.

Well worth the trip.


The first levels of the aquarium had reptiles and some fish.


Komodo dragon.














Whoever thought of putting tunnels through aquariums is a genius.




Imagine this being part of your work day - diving through an aquarium.






There was a touch tank. These guys are rubbery.


Mary-Anne said this was a Star Wars creature. It does remind me of the Millenium Falcon.


Lionfish! It was hanging like this, I did not forget to rotate the photo.








In the latter part, there was a huge shark reek in a tank. I decided that when I win the lottery, I will build an impressive aquarium, and it will be built in such a way to make the fish very easy to photograph, without glare on the glass.






I had a lot of fun playing with my bounce flash and trying to get great pictures. There was another tunnel through the reef.




We saw other people trying to get photos with sharks in the backgorund. Mary-Anne suggested that she sit in the tunnel and I just experiment and see what I got. She never looked behind her, she just looked around.

She had no idea this was there.


My favourite.


I really, really loved this experience.


Of course we stopped in the gift shop. I had to have this glass seahorse. The clerks wrapped it in many layers of bubble wrap for the flight home, and it arrived perfectly intact.