Maybe it shows I spend a lot of time looking at jellyfish but I got in this morning and was like NEW JELLY
Pacific sardines
Adrianna Tan (@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)

Attached: 2 images It’s hard to leave work sometimes! #Photography #Monterey #California

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I went for a walk at lunch

#Monterey #MontereyBayAquarium #Kelp

I met some of my coworkers
I love going to see the jellies
A coworker showed me her anglerfish plush toy
Many of my days in Monterey kick off here. It’s the coffee spot near work I tend to have breakfast meetings at, and also the mid point stop on my bike ride there.
Some days I feel like I’m in a John Steinbeck novel
More jelly
Can’t believe I get to see penguins while I’m at work
View from an office window (and I work in one of the ‘boring’ office buildings, not at the main aquarium). They all have pretty good views I think
I get notes with fish on them
View from my lunch meeting

The kelp forest exhibit says something like ‘you always know it’s a rockfish when it’s just laying there not moving’

Same

Birds before work (I went through a secret door to find some cormorants)

#Birds #Monterey #Birding

I’m obsessed with the egg yolk jellies

#jellyfish #marine #monterey

My wife is in town (very rare!) so we took a nice evening stroll from the aquarium to the Sandbar

Bloody-belly comb jelly. Can’t believe I get to see this at work

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/bloodybelly-comb-jelly

Black necked stilts at our onsite aviary (which rehabilitates and releases injured birds, and keeps those who can’t be released)
The ‘wave crash’ feature at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
GIANT sea bass

I love this pic I took of the avocet this morning. I went to the aviary this morning before we opened and I had the whole place to myself

#Birding #Avocet #Shorebirds

Baby birb (snowy plover)
I like to take the scenic route to my office (past the kelp forest)
The back deck when there’s no one there is really cool

I don’t know if you know how big this tank is

You can also se inside here https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams/kelp-forest-cam

The round blob in the top center is a southern sea otter frolicking by herself

Lunch with a view

#Birding #Cormorants

Seen around the office.

1. Sunfish costume (!!)
2. Penguin plushie

Pacific sardines at the roundabout
I sea you
Same window, a few seconds apart
The world feels weird. I’m just going to work by a window
I love that this penguin waddled over to ‘chat’
I need to not buy all the things at the store
Honk.
I think I am floundering (but actually it’s a mola mola)

I went to hang out with my friend, Ray

(You can watch the live stream too: https://www.youtube.com/live/QXhVdEyLRT0)

#Marine #Monterey #MontereyBayAquarium

Live Open Sea Cam - Monterey Bay Aquarium

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A coworker was waving at me from inside the shark tank.
I went to see my friend. He’s the bass.
My evening commute (I waited till closing time and for all guests to leave, then I went to hang out at the open sea exhibit by myself)

I saw this on a coworker’s desk (she works with the birds)

#Birds #Birding #Puffins

Room with a view
Let me kelp you

I have puffins at my workplace

#Birds #Birding #Puffins #Marine

I didn’t realize I loved sea nettles and jellyfish so much
Shark
Ray of hope
Sardines
Do the black sea nettles know they’re beautiful
Debut of Opal, our one year old otter that was named by the Internet
I adore puffins
@skinnylatte I'm so glad this otter got a good name, lmao.
@skinnylatte look at those big flipper feet!
@skinnylatte This looks magical
@boby_biq there’s also cool music when you see it
Manta Tech Demo 1 Playstation 1 HD

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@boby_biq @skinnylatte I second that "This looks magical". :)

@saadazim @boby_biq a video about the ‘roof of sardines’

https://youtu.be/vXWrbmBlmyA

Roof Made of Sardines ? What an Architectural Design "World Famous Monterey Bay Aquarium, California

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@skinnylatte @boby_biq Oh that is *BEAUTIFUL*! ^_^
@skinnylatte This is probably my favorite exhibit at every aquarium but Monterey does it the best.
@skinnylatte can you go through the aquarium before and after hours when there are no visitors?
@skinnylatte woah this looks like something straight out of Subnautica
@skinnylatte They are beautiful creatures 💙🧡🤍
@skinnylatte I think I have more jellyfish pictures in my phone than I do humans
@skinnylatte I caught these beautiful creature s there in 2016
@skinnylatte Sure, I get high with a little kelp from my friends <3
@skinnylatte I rarely see an angle on Monterey I've never seen before, but you found one!
@rednikki hehe, access to all the aquarium buildings along cannery row helps
@skinnylatte I should had made time to go see some puffins when I was in Iceland back in 2018.
@emma I’ve seen a bunch in the Farallon Islands. And the aquarium!
@skinnylatte oh cool! I've been meaning to take one of those tours out to the Farallons, and of course Cyn and I need to make a day trip to the Aquarium.

@emma do the ones with Alvarado adventures. Cheaper than the expedition and tourist boats. It’s a birding boat but it ends up being very similar, and cheaper

Lemme know if you plan a trip to the aquarium. I would suggest staying over a night to break it up. It’s close but not that close.

@skinnylatte I am told that the way one gives a penguin an MRI is one puts it in a traffic cone
@skinnylatte (partner works in vet med, with MRIs albeit not with penguins)
Rey The Penguin And Dr. Mike Tour Our Animal Care Center!

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@skinnylatte that’s _delightful_ 😍
@skinnylatte I cannot tell you how envious I am.
@skinnylatte You have the best job, and you have earned it.

@skinnylatte

Well is he your bass or your friend??

@noondlyt the bass friend I’ve ever had

@skinnylatte

Thank Cod for them.

@skinnylatte it’s all about the bass.
@skinnylatte no braine, it's not a bass, it's a bass
choir is rotting my phonetic ability for bass
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Do the black sea nettles know they’re beautiful
Debut of Opal, our one year old otter that was named by the Internet
I adore puffins
Reflections in the tank
Moon jellies

I like these little puffin bellies and feet

#Birds

HI IVY (I misidentified this otter, sorry)

#Otter #Otters #Marine

Sent my wife this (the joke is, I am kind of face blind and I can’t find her especially at airports)
Low light photo of a hammerhead shark

The California sheepshead can change gender. It also sleeps in a cocoon made of mucus, for protection.

I feel like I’m going to spend the wrasse of my life being jealous of it. (It is actually a wrasse)

#Fish #Puns

I’m in a conference room. I looked out of a window (because lots of people were). Someone says ‘they get all my seals of approval’

#Seals #Pinnepeds

You can’t tell, but this guy is swimming, burping and yelling and probably farting all at the same time. Impressive work.
I just love hanging out with them. Honestly I’d rather listen to sea lions barking than some politicians. Or internet sea lions
Lunch time walk
Sculpin and sea stars
Cardinalfish
Divers taking a giant sea bass to a medical appointment (they weigh 350lbs)
Brayyyyyy
Peekabooooo
Scream
Puffin with a branch
@skinnylatte this photo unopened, on my feed, looked like feet positioned to ‘clap’ 😂
@skinnylatte
Are they screaming for ice cream? 
@skinnylatte when do they elect their pope?
@skinnylatte huh, I guess they only wear red fins when choosing a new pope?

@skinnylatte

Sounds like a great name for a band.

@skinnylatte I'm extremely jealous! Thank you for sharing!
@skinnylatte I am really loving all of the aquarium post and all the puns - keep ‘em coming!
@skinnylatte I really wish this could be my lunch time walk.
@skinnylatte Some politicians? *Most* politicians... 🙄
@skinnylatte *digging out swim trunks from the closet*
Challenge accepted!
@skinnylatte How do you know I can't tell? Maybe I can tell!

@skinnylatte

I've seen seals flopped in the sand like this before and every time I think they're dead at first. Nope, just super chillin'.

@skinnylatte You work at a punusual workplace.
@skinnylatte hopefully they helped seal the deal hehe
@skinnylatte Behold! The Great Seals of the State of California!
@skinnylatte Today is the first day of the wrasse of your life, as the self-improvement affirmation used to go.
@skinnylatte fish is also pink, blue, and white because it is canonically trans

@skinnylatte

I'll add this fish to my list of things to point out when someone tries to claim that sex and gender are binary and there are only two and that's just how nature is 😂

@skinnylatte There is a card game called Sheepshead (related to the German Schafskopf) and now I’m gonna think of this fish every time I hear its name
@skinnylatte Aren’t those sardines?
@farah yep. Pacific sardines
@skinnylatte Misidentification? Ottrageous!
@skinnylatte Your workplace never ceases to deliver the delights
@skinnylatte You have puffins? *books flight*
@theplaguedoc we have a few rescues at the aquarium. they’re super cute. It’s also pelagic birding season and I’m going on trips to the Farallon islands nearby. have seen puffins in the water often
@skinnylatte yes, but at some point you're going to have to admit that the canoe has actually sunk. One does not simply observe the underside of a puffin.
@skinnylatte Sung to the tune Moon River.
@skinnylatte I love how they exhibit phases, like their namesake.
@skinnylatte I'm so glad this otter got a good name, lmao.
@skinnylatte look at those big flipper feet!