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From: link@soup.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link)
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Subject: Re: DC area shops
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Date: 20 Jan 90 02:34:14 GMT
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In article <521@intelisc.nosun.UUCP> jvz@intelisc.UUCP (John Van Zandt) writes:
>
>What I would recommend is that you travel the
>1 hour by car to visit the National Aquarium in Baltimore.  It is
>a multistory building which houses a huge collection which is
>very informative of both salt and fresh-water fish.  Plan on at least
>2 hours in the exhibits -- it is well worth the travel time.  There is
>even a rain-forest on the rooftop which is hot, humid and has ponds and streams
>full of South American fresh-water fish.

Yes, and IMHO, better than the Monterey Aquarium. The Monterey one is very
impressive (and parts of Star Trek IV were filmed there, allegedly the
Sausalito Cetacean Institute - however, facing east from Sausalito one does
not see open ocean - but I digress) but fauna and aquascape is that of
Monterey Bay. While quite lovely, it is just not as diverse as the
Baltimore Aquarium. The multistory circular tank in Baltimore is quite
impressive.

Richard Link