Wednesday, August 26, 2009

South Padre Island...part 6...Sea Life Center

The same day we did the Sea turtle rescue it rained a little that morning so we decided to go across the bridge to Port Isabel where they have the Sea Life center(which is next to Pirate landing where the pirate ship is). This place had various sea life. They did not have the sea turtles. Hailey discovered "helping" mommy take pictures at this place cause it kept her next to me. This is partly my fault since the day before we went to the end of the island and found a beach that had huge unbroken shells in the water. I will do a post of just Hailey pictures that she "took" and add the picture of the shells too. The Sea Life center is in Pirate's Landing which consists of the Pirate's landing resturant, The pirate ship cruise and the fishing pier. When you pull into this parking lot you do not think its much of anything, but there is a lot there. They have a HUGE pier and there are so many people fishing off of it. We are not even close to attempting fishing with Hailey. I am now wishing that I would have paid more attention when my dad and grandpop were trying to teach me to cast my line out instead of just dropping it over the boat. I do not know if Hailey would ever be able to do fishing, she cannot sit still, I am hoping it is just her age and not her personality. Only time will tell........


Parrots outside at the Pirate's landing........she saw the birds and there are Pirate statue type things where you can put your face in, or stand next to them.....she kept saying to the birds "polly want a cracker"


sea life center....Blue crab...the second time we came by this guy he had his claws raised up, like dont mess with me!

this is a frog fish (i think) he was weird looking
.....sea horse...in case you did not know...hehehe

this is a picture of some turtles they had there. It was us and another family there. The little boy from the other family fed the turtle, then the guy let Hailey (with Glenne's help) feed the turtle and that is what this is a picture of...if you look at the top right you see their 2 hands holding the scissors with the shrimp on the end.
this is a HUGE hermit crab eating shrimp the guy just fed him.


this was a lobster he had big antena....he was not a regular lobster..spider lobster??

http://www.spinaturecenter.com/

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We are a family of three who are still Philadelphians at heart. Hailey is the first to be born in Texas from our family. We love Texas but still count Philly as home too....so we have 2 homes in our hearts. We will always support our first home town teams....Philly teams!!