Joy and I decided that we would visit the North Carolina aquarium at Fort Fisher. It was a short ferry ride from neighboring Southport. If you are in the area of Southport or Oak Island or Kure Beach, you definitely want to go visit this aquarium. While it may not be as large or extensive has the aquariums at Long Beach or Monterey Bay in California, it offers many wonderful exhibits and provides entertaining environmental education programs for kids. I saw kids petting sharks, stingrays, and horseshoe crabs. They had more nerve than I did. I dare you to do it.

Here is an eight or nine minute video to give you a taste of what it was that we saw.