She ran right in as soon as she saw it, which meant that I had to run right in too. The water was too cold for Floridians, but we’re kind of tourists now, and our 2 year old doesn’t care how cold the water is. They are currently expanding and building a big, new area for Winter and Hope that looks like an area the dolphins will love.Īfter the aquarium, we drove down to Pier 60 at Clearwater Beach and walked around and played in the water. But they have some forever residents, like Winter and Hope the dolphins, and there’s also some otters, sea turtles, fish, stingrays, and pelicans. Other animals may come and go once they are rehabilitated. K picked out a dolphin… like mother like daughter 😉 There was a glitter tattoo station for a $5 donation to the aquarium. All the money spent there goes directly back into the aquarium. I’m pretty sure the only reason it’s even open to the public is to raise awareness and to help support their mission. It’s a rehabilitation center and animal hospital first and foremost, not a tourist attraction. The Aquarium isn’t a big fancy aquarium that you see in other cities, like the Florida Aquarium or the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. You can add that to the list of reasons they’re awesome. It was like she heard the employee talking about her, and I’m sure she did. Even so, while we were talking to the employee by the tank, we kept seeing Winter glance in our direction. She wasn’t very active when we were there, but one of the employees mentioned she had a busy morning with a group of kids earlier that day.
And people from all over come to see Winter and how capable she is of doing many things, even though she is missing a vital part of her anatomy that is typically necessary for survival. The story of Winter has been an inspiration to a lot of people, especially those that were been born with missing limbs, or lost them later in life. She lost her tail from the injury and the team ended up creating a prosthetic tail for her to help her swim. Winter got caught in a crab trap and was taken to the Clearwater Marine Hospital at the Aquarium. But, the main character, Winter, is a dolphin, which we have established is an animal I like. Obviously we thought it was cool that it was filmed somewhere we were familiar with, Clearwater, FL.
#Clearwater marine aquarium winter the dolphin movie#
We’ve even watched the movie Dolphin Tale a few times. Surprisingly, we had never gone, even though it was just a fairly short drive from where we lived, and I’ve been to that beach hundreds of times.
We decided to take the kids to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium since it is just down he street from the beach. It was chilly there, but still warmer than Washington, so I wasn’t complaining. But, this was our first time visiting from somewhere that was significantly colder than Florida, so we had to enjoy the fresh, semi-warm sea air while we could. When we lived there, we didn’t go to the beach very often once we had kids because it was so much work for staying such a short period of time. We went to Florida for a short trip a few weeks ago, and of course we had to go to the beach. And I still can’t bring myself to get rid of some of those dolphin figurines. You’d think after that I may have gotten over my obsession, but obviously not because they are still my favorite animal. I remember my parents let me redo my bedroom, and it was dolphin EVERYTHING! Light blue walls, with a dolphin border, bedsheets that looked like water and a comforter and pillowcases with giant pictures of dolphins on them, stuffed animals, figurines, you name it. Dolphins have been my favorite animals since I was at least like, 10.
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