{"id":2288,"date":"2014-05-26T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2014\/05\/26\/tentacles"},"modified":"2020-02-24T04:05:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:05:46","slug":"tentacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"Tentacles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wildness reminds us what it means to be human,<\/i>
\nwhat we are connected to<\/i>
\nrather than what we are separate from.<\/i>
\n-Terry Tempest Williams<\/p>\n
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Back further than I care to remember, I watched the movie “20,000 leagues under the Sea” for a scouting activity. The Giant Squid scared the piss out of me.<\/p>\n

It also started my continuing fascination with the world that exists below the ocean’s surface.<\/p>\n

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The new “Tentacles” exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium gives one the chance to view creatures previously unseen by most land based wanderers.<\/p>\n

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From tiny squid to terrifying Octopi, to a Crustacean creature that I heard is 50 million years old ( that isn’t verifiable, but even if it’s only one million years old, even 10,000 years\u00a0old, it’s pretty darn incredible!), the ocean world is one that is constantly intriguing.<\/p>\n

Matter of fact, the world below seems as curious about those that dwell above as we are about what lives below…..<\/p>\n

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In all things of Nature, there is something of the marvelous.<\/i>
\n-Aristole<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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