Maine State Aquarium

Friday morning found us, along with Jen and Asa Hodgdon, arriving at the small octagonal building known as the Maine State Aquarium, overlooking a foggy Boothbay Harbor. Arriving a few minutes before it even opened was a novelty for this habitually late girl.








Once the doors were opened and the Gillespies and Johnstons joined us we entered the large dimly lit room to enjoy the many tanks filled with mostly local marine species. When local lobstermen find oddities in their traps, many times they offer them to the aquarium and so we observed a lobster that was split down the middle, half red and half black, as well as one that sported six claws. An hour into our visit an educational presentation on Maine lobsters was held outside on the covered porch.








The highlight of the aquarium were the two touch tanks where the kids handled sea stars, sea urchins, hermit crabs, sea cucumbers, and scallops as well as lightly touching some dogfish and some gorgeously patterned cat shark. The field trip was a fine finish to another productive school week.







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