This annual repeating four-week summer open house is sponsored by Blinn Aquatic Center. It is open to children of all ages and their guardians. (Click an image to see the full photo.)
- Sargassum shrimp
- Family viewing live ocean specimens
- Creating an ocean still life
- Tarantula, praying mantis, and a scorpion, oh my!
- “What will this caterpillar turn into?” (He knows!)
- Scorpion carrying babies on her back
- Fearless Terri and her lubber
- “Here’s a monarch; wonder what its caterpillar looks like?”
- Crafting insects
- Family viewing specimens with magnifying scopes
- “Will the bluebird eggs still hatch?”
- Caveman in training
- Visitors feeding turtles
- Family watching the turtles
- Getting a closeup view of the turtles with the underwater scopes
- “Are the turtles we’re holding the same as the ones they used to sell in pet stores?”
- Catfish peering out from the non-murky depths
- Family sharing art work
- Is this one friendly? –not!
- And when we thought it was over, these visitors discovered cattail “fluff”!






















