5 years ago, @clockwrkheart and Jon took me to OdySea for my birthday. Tako, the giant Pacific octopus there at the time, was tucked in a little cave. The guy behind me took a flash photo and she got mad and thought it was me. I managed to capture her attacking me through the glass. Best birthday ever. 😊🐙💕
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Makeing the feathering for Artemis arrows was an odysea in acrylpaint and colours. >__>
Like... I should probably stop painting at night but also a lot of these paints dry a lot darker than you might think, so I ended up repaining these parts like 3-4 times... triing diffrent highlights, no highlights, paint combinations and in the end realising that you need way more white in your paintmix than you think, to get neoncolours.
I later cut the feathering a bit slimmer to make them less chunky looking and I'm quite satisfied now.
Still looking for a better way to glue the feathering on bc currently it's a bit fragile. If anyone might have a tip, for a good way to attach these, I'd appreachiate it. (Contact glue, hotglue, superglue and normal woodglue only had medicore results and I have to regulary re-glue parts.)
There was a ship name I saw today (which means it was in port or will be sometime in the near future) that was a pun on Odyssey/Odysseus - it was called Odyseas (or very similar).
Like, one of those 2 names alone would be somewhat comparable to naming your ship Titanic, but to add the PUN. The Greek pantheon aren't exactly known for humoring mortals. I wonder if the ship is always late...
PACE will provide a combination of atmospheric and oceanic observations to benefit society in the areas of water resources, disaster impacts, ecological forecasting, human health and air quality. Users at local, state, federal and international agencies as well as the general public will be able to apply data from PACE to make more informed and robust decisions about their activities.
Credits:
Artist (Ocean Worlds Day, Ocean Missions, PACE, Eddies, Clouds, Aerosols): Sarah Amiri, Univ. of California San Diego / Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Interactives (What Will PACE Help Us See?, How Will We Check PACE Data?, Clouds, Aerosols): Annette deCharon, ODYSEA LLC
By: Sara Blumberg
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
Mom took me and my sister to the Odysea last month for my birthday! Sorry I haven't posted sooner but HERE ARE THE PICS!
This window over the downstairs bathroom sink was officially voted coolest bathroom in the USA (the plaque said 2017, I think). Why? Because it views into the Voyager shark tank. Trevally, other fish, and FIVE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF SHARKS swim past this window and will even go behind the bubble screen while people are washing their hands. I couldn't get a pic of the sandbar shark when it swam by the window bc it went by pretty quick. But this restroom is by the front entrance and it is the perfect appetizer to a gourmet experience.
Also, trevally are HUGE.
Here is the mascot species of the Odysea, a sand tiger/gray nurse/ragged tooth shark. The bubble fountain at the back of the photo hides the bathroom window.
The Sea Trek tank on the upper floor had mostly tropical fish, but it had a zebra shark and A BONNETTHEAD SHARK! SQUEEEEE!!!! Internally crying for joy!!!!
Brown-banded Bamboo Shark in the shark/ray touch aquarium. A couple of times while I was hanging out by this tank I saw it roll onto its side and scratch itself in the sand--I've seen that on video so I jumped whenever I saw it happen. The cownose rays in the touch tanks are absolutely spoiled and swim up to the surface for pets ASAP when they see you approach.
Benthic buddies: here's the brown-banded bamboo shark lying next to the white-spotted bamboo shark.
Magnificent zebra shark in the movie theater tank. The movie theater would play 10-minute videos and then move the screen back up between showings. I think this was probably my favorite tank. There was a second zebra shark (Stegostoma tigrinum) in this tank.
They also had LEOPARD SHARKS (Triakis semifasciata) !!!!!! again, my cup runneth over!
Epaulette sharks in the Great Barrier Reef tunnel. The one laying on the glass was a male and so he was flashing EVERYONE with his claspers (blurry pic--but maybe that's for the better). There was also an epaulette shark in the stingray touch tank.
Got to spend a few moments of shared eye contact with this epaulette shark💖
Back to the Voyager tank. Here is a sandbar shark and the head of a LEMON SHARK. There were at least two lemon sharks in the Voyager tank. It took me a moment to recognize them. The Voyager tanks are kind of dark, and ofc with no natural sunlight the lemon sharks don't get to show off their color properly. Maybe they should change the light fixtures.
Here's a sandbar shark again along with a view of the reef in the Voyager tank. Again, the trevally are ENORMOUS, bigger than the blacktip reef shark (either that, or BTRs are just small). I deliberately avoided taking too many photos and focused more on the experience, so these are just the highlights of the sharks. Also I've seen the giant Amazon rainforest fish before so no need to repeat.
Have some random aquarium denizens:
Aquarium review: They definitely put money and effort into making the aquarium a good home for the animals as well as engaging and educational for visitors. I was able to be up close and personal with the sharks, which was exactly what I wanted. I feel like the rotating Voyager exhibit is a little overrated--the cheesy Holiday-themed narration didn't help. Aquarium staff kept their distance but were helpful when needed. Starbucks on the second floor is nice. Super expensive but definitely worth it. 8 out of 10.