Shark Week 2011: When and where to see the fin!

We wait all year for it!

SHARK WEEK!

Check out some fun places to get close, maybe too close, to the majestic creatures that fascinate children and adults, alike!







Sea Life Grapevine

Visit the newest North Texas attraction,
Sea Life in Grapevine!

SEA LIFE Grapevine Aquarium transports you into the amazing underwater world. Prepare for astonishingly close views of everything from humble starfish and seahorses to graceful rays, to get any closer you would have to get wet!

• Amazing 360° Underwater Ocean Tunnel
• 30 Incredible Displays
• More than 5,000 Sea Creatures
• Take the Shark Walk if you're brave enough!

http://www.visitsealife.com/Grapevine/


















Children's Aquarium of Fair Park

In cooperation with the Dallas Zoo, the Children's Aquarium of Fair Park offers visitors the chance to see aquatic animals with the child's perspective in mind.  Tanks are built at child's eye level, including the touch tanks! Lots of interactive exhibits allow children to learn about creatures of the deep and not so deep!
Sunday, Wednesday and Friday Shark Feeding
http://childrensaquariumfairpark.com/


Dallas World Aquarium

The Dallas World Aquarium, located downtown in the Dallas Arts District, offers Shark feeding daily at 11:30am and 4:30pm
http://www.dwazoo.com/








Sea World San Antonio

You could spend days seeing all the sights at Sea World San Antonio, but for sharks, you must visit the   shark habitat!  Pictures and information of each of the sharks living inside the 450,000 gallon tank, and a close enough view to make you appreciate what swim in the seas!
http://seaworldparks.com/en/seaworld-sanantonio/Attractions/Exhibits/Sharks-and-Coral-Reef



Texas State Aquarium
Corpus Christi

Saturday, July 30th, the Texas State Aquarium is kicking it off with fun games, activities, giveaways and more!

Visit the Islands of Steel exhibit, where all of the animals can be found around an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico: nurse sharks, green morays, spadefish, amberjack, tarpon, grouper and Hans, the sand tiger shark. 
http://www.texasstateaquarium.org/

Sea Center Texas, located in Lake Jackson is operated by Texas Parks and Wildlife.  Tours are offered Tues. - Sunday, and the largest Redfish hatchery in the world.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/visitorcenters/seacenter/


Moody Gardens, Galveston

There are lots of new exhibits at Moody Gardens in Galveston! Sharks In Depth, the latest exhibit in the Aquarium Pyramid® at Moody Gardens®, explores shark fact versus fiction, anatomy and behavior through a series of hands-on activities. Visitors can learn how a shark survives without a swim bladder, how they sense prey through vibrations and smell, what currently threatens shark populations and more. A new Aquarium Pyramid® Shark Passport will be available to visitors so that they can learn to identify shark species from around the world.

Texas Shark Fishing
Galveston

Captain Mike Williams and his Tarpon Express offer exciting shark fishing trips to famiilies.  Some of the different types of sharks they encounter are Blacktip sharks, Bull sharks, Tiger and occassional Hammerhead sharks. 
http://galvestonsharkfishing.com/






Downtown Aquarium Restaurant
Houston
http://www.aquariumrestaurants.com/downtownaquariumhouston/default.asp