A Dolphin Tale at Clearwater Aquarium

On Tuesday, we drove back to Clearwater to check out their Aquarium. It's a rescue and rehabilitation aquarium, so all of the animals there have were injured or abandoned. The most famous animal there is Winter the Dolphin. She is the star of 'A Dolphin Tale'. She lost her tail in a crab trap and now lives at the aquarium. She swims great without it, but wears a prothetic tail for physical therapy sessions. The movie had many scenes shot there and has made this place extremely popular. When we first arrived, one of the volunteers let the girls hold Winter's prosthetic tail. This was #16 out of 18 tails she's owned.

The girls also got to pet sea urchins and sting rays! That was the girls' favorite activity. We hung out here two times.

Here's Winter. You can kind of see how her tail is missing. It was hard to get a picture of her since they didn't have underwater viewing.

Here's Nicolas...he washed ashore and got stuck. This poor guy suffered horrible sunburn and will forever have scars. This big guy can still splash though! He got us SOAKED!