Georgia on my…Magnus? Day 6

Monday, February 16

I got up thinking, Today is going to be my peaceful day. Hope it works.

It rained heavily overnight but the morning was somewhat clear. Molly and I had a good walk.
Finally saw robins. Lots of robins. Plus a red-headed woodpecker and a Brown Creeper.

This was our second day at Little Tallapoosa, the park with the many trails (and the really great bike trail.)  The plan for the day was to go to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. We had a horrid drive getting there—the traffic on the Interstate was backed up, so we let Google do one of its faster routes—which turned out to be lots of winding around through city streets with lights, stop signs, and tons of traffic. There’s no way it was faster!

 

 

Parts of the aquarium were really, really nice. But it wasn’t as great as it was hyped up to be. It was laid out marquis style, with a big circle surrounded by “attractions” on two levels. Even with a map it made little sense. It was like a big, noisy fish-based amusement park. There seemed to be only two really huge tanks—one with mostly sharks and some fish; one with beluga whales--plus a little dolphin tank and one gorgeous coral reef display. But there weren’t very many of the little, single-species displays like they typically have in zoos or aquariums. There were a few and some of them held supremely cool creatures, but just not enough.

And so many people!  I’d accidentally scheduled the visit for President’s Day (a Monday holiday) and it was five times as crowded as usual.

We signed up for the dolphin show, then wandered around and saw every thing else in a couple of hours until time to get in line for it. It was nice, but not superbly magically amazing. Sigh

And we returned to Molly. Traffic worked better this time. Making up for leaving her alone in the motorhome for six hours, I put on jogging shoes and took her for a long jog on the bike trail. Hopefully she forgot all about her boring day of confinement. We started running into other people walking dogs on the trail, so we detoured off onto the walking paths and had an extra long walk after the jogging was done. It was lovely.