North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores

Since our second ocean dive got canceled due to bad weather, we went to the {en:North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores}.  The aquarium is really good, they have playful otters, turtles, frogs, snakes, sharks, etc.  The aquarium also has a touch aquarium where you can touch skates and rays.  Here I am touching some of these playful pups.

In addition, the aquarium has a really cool living shipwreck.  Here is a excerpt from wikipedia:

Most of the larger creatures inhabit the Aquarium’s centerpiece exhibit, the 306,000-gallon Living Shipwreck. Along with hundreds of schooling fishes and other animals, they create a swirl of constant motion around a replica of U-352, a German submarine that lost a World War II battle with a Coast Guard cutter off the North Carolina coast.