Theater of the Sea

I’ve been so busy with homework that I’ve not had time to update on some of my previous adventures!
Here’s a long overdue post from back in August on my trip to Florida. For the last few days of our time there, we’ve decided to drive to Key West, which is the southernmost city in the Continental United States. After spending a night in Key West, we woke up bright and early the next day and went to visit Hemingway’s House (check out that post here!).
Afterwards, we drove to the Village of Islamorada to go the Theater of the Sea, which le bf had planned since he knew how much I enjoy interacting with animals :D

As soon as I walked in the entrance/store area of the Theater of the Sea, I knew he was right. They had all sorts of rescued animals wondering around in the store ! (Yay more cats!)

Kitty #1 spotted outside the entrance

Inside the shop

This one looks kinda wary

cats everywhere!

                
There was a list of programs lined up for us to see, and our first stop was to take a mini-cruise on the Bottomless Boat Ride with the dolphins!

The view from the bottomless boat ride

The dolphin joined us in the boat (:

Caught a shot at the perfect moment when the dolphin was jumping by!

We had some time to kill after the boat ride, so we stopped by some ponds to check out the marine life.

Seagulls in a row

Such colourful fish

Metallic blue fish

Afterwards, we got an interesting Guided Marine Life Tour with one of the staff and learnt something pretty cool facts about the animals there.
There were quite a few tortoise in the ponds and they’re all rescues, so each have different injuries.

Turtle with a flotation device due to a deformity to its shell

This one is missing one of its flippers

It looks like it’s smiling O_o

Sting ray

Nursing shark

Caretaker feeding the sharks

                
Iguanas are an invasive species in the Florida Keys. They can be spotted everywhere just chilling in the park. We saw a few of them on our way to see the Parrot Show:

A wild giant iguana appears!

Big yawn!

Omnomnom nuts

This one keeps doing silly things like this

                

I was quite impressed by how smart some of the parrots were!

He correctly placed all the shapes!

Walking forward and backwards

He’s got addition and subtraction down pat!

Next on our agenda was the Dolphin Show, featuring the 2 dolphins that we saw earlier on the Bottomless Boat Ride.
We both got to kiss the dolphins at the end of the show! Their skin was slippery.

Kissed by a dolphin (;

Next up on the list, the Sea Lion Show, it was pretty hilarious :D

Dat strength

Sea lion smile… Kinda creepy LOL

Pretending to be a walrus :D

Throwing hoops and he caught each of them!

Since it was late August, I assume that most people were not on vacation anymore so there weren’t that many visitor in the park, which was awesome because we didn’t have to spend anytime in line waiting, and got excellent seats to all of the shows :D