![]() The new Shark Bites Café offers an array of food choices along with beer and wine, which guests can enjoy indoors or outside on the Dolphin Terrace. A larger on-site parking garage now connects to the main entrance. Visitors will also notice a more spacious area – a total new guest space of 103,000 square feet. ![]() The new 1.5 million gallon dolphin habitat Brand-new third floor access also features additional views of the dolphin area and overlooks Clearwater Bay. Nine viewing areas, including a 40-foot-long by 14-foot-tall window, are available for visitors to watch the dolphins. The larger habitat also allow room for future rescued animals. Today, Winter and Hope, along with resident dolphins PJ, Nicholas, and Hemingway, share the new pool space. Her story made headlines when she received a prosthetic tail, which inspired the movies. In 2005, Winter was rescued when she was found with her tail entangled in a crab trap. The habitat, which was 14 years in the making, is home to the aquarium’s most famous residents, Winter and Hope, stars of Dolphin Tale and Dolphin Take 2. The largest expansion is a 1.5 million gallon dolphin habitat, the Ruth and J.O. Recently, the facility went through some major changes. CMA has dedicated itself to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of sick and injured marine animals since 1972. CLEARWATER MARINE AQUARIUM WINTER MOVIEHowever the boat ride, the movie building, and the trolley ride were a nice surprise and helped make the trip worth it.Just minutes away from white, sandy turf of Clearwater Beach sits Clearwater Marine Aquarium. ![]() Then we could have seen things better and not felt quite so rushed to move on so other people could see. I think it would have been 10 times better if there were less people there (with the FTF rally we had over 100 people in our group on top of all the other people that were there). When it was all said and done I was a little disappointed with the Aquarium. They actually had the movie playing on a screen there and I think the kids would have sat there and watched the whole thing!Īfter that we took a trolley ride back to the aquarium and our car. The movie area was cool and the kids liked seeing all of the different items and scenes from the movie. It was really neat having the kids try to find Dolphins while we were on the boat! CLEARWATER MARINE AQUARIUM WINTER DRIVERA few minutes in we started to spot Dolphins in the water! The driver would stop and we would watch them for a while. We got on the boat (which was right outside the front of the aquarium) and headed out. Luckily my parents were with us again so they were able to watch Knox while I went in with the other kids.Īfter that we had heard that they had a boat that took you out and over to the other part of the Aquarium which was all about the movies (props, pictures, movies, etc). It was interesting and informative but maybe a little to much for the younger kids. Through the FTF rally we were able to attend an education session where they talked about Sea Turtles. We checked that out and then watched the turtles and sea otters for a little bit. They had a couple of touch tanks – with sting rays and sea urchins. ![]() The kids thought it was neat and I am glad that we did it! It was really hard to tell what was going on but as we walked around we were able to see Winter. To be honest I didn’t think it could hold the amount of people that were there. Once you go in it really isn’t much of an Aquarium but more of an animal rescue set up. But when you get there they have the boat from the movie and the kids thought it was awesome to see. It was over an hour drive from the rally – and even more when you take a wrong exit – yes I did that. I quickly got on the computer and made sure we could still get tickets!Īlso, be sure to check out our Florida Road Trip as this is a stop on the route! Then one of the Mom’s I met at TTO mentioned that it was Winter From Dolphin Tale! I said Wait WHAT?!! Now we have to go! The kids love the movies and watch them all the time. I figured we had been to enough Aquariums so we really didn’t need to spend the money on another one. At first we weren’t even going to attend the Clearwater Aquarium field trip at the FTF Rally. ![]()
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