Sunday, February 10, 2008

The Montery Bay Aquarium


Hundreds of them hypnotize you with their eyes wide open…… their shapes, colours all set to take you to an experience, amazingly different and enchanting. You can’t escape the verve once caught in it and float with them voyaging through a miniature yet vast and magnetic world of the deep oceans. The visit to the Montery Bay Aquarium leaves you speechless like its inmates.
The mind-blowing drive with long-stretched coniferous trees on either side makes you fly and not drive. You are just lost in the journey and you reach Montery Bay, a beautiful township bound with the pacific on its west.
Montery Bay Aquarium - once you enter the place, an uncanny ambience invites you to enjoy the awesome treasure the oceans disclose in front of you, unfolding the various secrets of the aquatic world. You just go on staring at the diverse forms of beauty and life, extending from the ever-in-motion sardines to the king if the ocean - sharks and wonder about their being what they are.
It is like diving deep to explore through the other world and having just a glimpse of it. You certainly feel like really going nearer to the Nature and finding out the ‘how’ behind its display. You are not only confronted with a variety of fish but also brought to the ultimate realization where you salute the Maker for His skill and ingenuity, His art and creativity.
You return home with an exhilarating experience and many a things yet undiscovered.
But a thought undoubtedly lingers in your mind, ……
……..is my very existence of any more worth than these born-to-move species lacking a self identity?