{"id":3364,"date":"2008-07-24T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2008-07-24T11:07:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:07:01","slug":"recent-marineland-trip-observations-including-new-baby-beluga-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/24\/recent-marineland-trip-observations-including-new-baby-beluga-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Marineland trip observations (including new baby Beluga whale)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Monday we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?61\">Marineland<\/a>. While we were there, I picked up my season&#8217;s pass, and we will definitely be going back.<\/p>\n<p>General Observations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All of the water was a lot cleaner than previous visits. This includes the water in the aquarium, the Orca tanks, and the Beluga tanks<\/li>\n<li>The show in the aquarium are very short and are hardly worth doing. They had three pacific walruses (two females and one male). They were fed and did a couple of small tricks. The whole thing only lasted a couple of minutes. However, I did learn something. The announcer claimed that tusks are like wisdom teeth. Sometimes they are removed if they will cause a problem. Out of the three walruses, only one female had tusks<\/li>\n<li>There used to be a gift shop right next to aquarium in the same building. Obviously the space is still there, but it isn&#8217;t a gift shop anymore. That is now the place where you rent strollers and things<\/li>\n<li>We watched the 5:15 stadium show on a Monday. The crowd was very small, so there wasn&#8217;t much &#8220;electricity&#8221; in the air. It had rained a bit earlier in the day, so I&#8217;m sure the park cleared out.<\/li>\n<li>During the part of the show where the dolphin&#8217;s perform, there are normally four of them together. All four came out, but one of the dolphins wouldn&#8217;t do anything. The trainer was very patient and touched the dolphin a lot (obviously trying to coax it into performing), but it just wouldn&#8217;t do anything. It just didn&#8217;t seem interested at all<\/li>\n<li>There were 16 belugas in one tank, and only 6 in others. There was someone sitting there with a clipboard and you could see two smaller Belugas swimming. Apparently there was a baby born two weeks ago. The other baby is actually the one that was born last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ride Observations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was technically within the height limit of the Orca Screamer, but realistically I was too big to go on. I didn&#8217;t fit well into the seat and hurt my back a bit. My 5-year-old son just loved the right, though<\/li>\n<li>We went on Orca Screamer, Viking Adventure, Lady Bug Coaster, and Space Avenger<\/li>\n<li>There were spider webs everywhere! I&#8217;m sure all of the heat, moisture, humidity makes it difficult to control. My sons kept pointing them out<\/li>\n<li>all sorts of languages, always one of the interesting things about Niagara Falls<\/li>\n<li>Pretty well everything seemed to be in working order. The only thing I noticed was that one of the &#8220;spaceships&#8221; on the Space Avenger wasn&#8217;t working<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t take enough good pictures to put up a new gallery, so I&#8217;ve just posted a few below. You can click on the picture to see a larger version<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/20080721_marineland_ride.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3392\" title=\"20080721_marineland_ride\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/20080721_marineland_ride.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The Viking Adventure<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/20080721_marineland_killer_whale.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3391\" title=\"20080721_marineland_killer_whale\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/20080721_marineland_killer_whale.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>An Orca Whale<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/20080721_marineland_dolphin.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3390\" title=\"20080721_marineland_dolphin\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/20080721_marineland_dolphin.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A Dolphin<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/20080721_marineland_beluga_whale.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3389\" title=\"20080721_marineland_beluga_whale\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/20080721_marineland_beluga_whale.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A Beluga whale mother with its new baby (only 2 weeks old)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/20080721_marineland_walrus.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3388\" title=\"20080721_marineland_walrus\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/20080721_marineland_walrus.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A Pacfic Walrus<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Monday we went to Marineland. While we were there, I picked up my season&#8217;s pass, and we will definitely be going back. General Observations All of the water was a lot cleaner than previous visits. This includes the water in the aquarium, the Orca tanks, and the Beluga tanks The show in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}