Boarding the Grande Mariner and going to Holland, MI

We begin the day by finding the Grande Mariner and leaving our luggage ...

... then heading off to visit Chicago's Shedd Aquarium. This fellow sits out in front.

This man-and-fish fountain marks the Shedd Aquarium entrance.

Inside a blur of fish -- this fellow with his tiny blue friends.

A turtle swims past, below the surface.

Identifying all the creatures is beyond me. This is just a very large and rangy crab.

A deadly Moray Eel sizes me up.

What manner of creature or plant life is this?

Here's a nice color scheme.

Oh those beautiful eyes!

A Seahorse

A blizzard of fish

This fish is pretty distinctive. Can you identify him for me?

A great big scary-looking Iguana

Stingray coming at us

Diver feeding the Stingrays

Another strange fish likes to be vertical.

Diver among rays and large turtles

A couple of ordinary turtles among the exotica of the Shedd Aquarium

Now the exciting part: We find a man feeding the Aquarium's Beluga Whales.

Trust!

He pets one whale while another circles.

This whale studies the people around the pool.

A Beluga thinks about swimming under the platform.

The whales like to play with this floating hat. This one has figured out how to put it on.

A Beluga whale stands vertically in the water, and pushes its torso up high.

A Beluga fully submerged

This his how we Belugas normally swim.