SeaWorld

We returned to Seaworld today for the last time before our pass runs out; we don’t do big roller coasters which seems to be most of Seaworld these days – and a number of things we might do, like Atlantis and Shamu, were closed … but we did get almost private access to the penguins, arriving soon after the park opened and with only two other people viewing them!

Later in the day we had an even closer penguin experience (a paid for VIP event) where we were allowed to stroke the penguins; again we got really lucky with a very small group so lots of penguin interaction!

We returned to SeaWorld today; after a more than forty minute traffic queue to get into parking (!) the park itself was happily less busy and we enjoyed a [hot] day watching seals, killer whales, dolphins, sharks and more – no rides though (the lines for those were much too long!)

Here’s some photos from the Orca Encounter:

And here, some Dolphins:

It’s been years since we last visited Sea World but with their good pricing and special offers (like “bring a guest”) we returned yesterday and had a fun time! The weather was great, and the park wasn’t busy (easy to get seats for the shows, and walk-on for the Atlantis ride!) … I took lots of photos of the sting rays, dolphins, killer whales, sea lions, etc:

I took various videos too, and edited them together: