March 22 – Atlanta GA

We left Elberta LA about 7:30 am yesterday as we knew we would cross from the Central Time Zone to the Eastern Time Zone when we crossed from Alabama into Georgia, thereby losing an hour. It took us roughly 7 hours to make the trip. As we drove further north in Georgia, we noticed very few trees with hanging Spanish moss on them. We were just settling into our campsite at Allatoona Landing Marine Resort when it started pouring rain and continued most of the night. The temperature dropped to 4C (40F) last night – thank goodness for our gas furnaces.

This morning was damp and drizzling rain but we didn’t care as we drove into Atlanta to spend the day at the Georgia Aquarium. It is classed as the largest aquarium in the world with 6.3 million gallons of water. It houses 4 whale sharks, 2 Manta Rays, and 100,000 other sharks, rays, large groupers, etc. It is truly worth the trip to visit it! One item off our bucket list!



A Manta Ray soars in the huge aquarium, up to 30' deep in spots.





A Giant Grouper stares back at us in the 100' tunnel under the aquarium.

Here is a video of a Giant Grouper.
File is about 670K.

Jelly fish float by this viewing window. They are really fascinating up close. They have blue lighting in this display to highlight their transparent bodies and tendrils.

The main viewing window is 61' long and 23' feet high. The big fish in the foreground are Giant Grouper. Yup, it's big...about 4 feet long.












Bev is looking at the Tropical Diver display, with many species of colourful fish. There is even a wave generator to simulate ocean conditions.








You can look here for more information:
Wikipedia Georgia Aquarium

Or look at the Georgia Aquarium website.


This video shows a feeding frenzy at the huge Ocean Voyager viewing window.

File is about 1.2M

Manta Ray doing a loop.
File is about 790K.

Whale Shark viewed in tunnel.

File is about 1M.

Feeding Whale Sharks   File is about 3M.