by Jerry Stewart
Octopus Garden, a new innovative attraction opening April 4 at Sea Life Grapevine Aquarium, introduces families to the amazing world of cephalopods. From octopus and cuttlefish to nautilus, these distinctive creatures have almost supernatural abilities including camouflage, ink clouds and jet propulsion. Octopus Garden includes hands-on activities demonstrating some of the unique skills belonging to cephalopods.
“We are thrilled to show visitors how strangely beautiful these creatures are,” said Iain Scouller, General Manager of Sea Life Aquarium and Legoland Discovery Center. “Octopus Garden will educate guests about these unique creatures in a fun and interactive environment as only Sea Life can do.”
With five new display tanks, the exhibit features a Giant Pacific Octopus, Zebra Octopus, Pharaoh Cuttlefish and Chambered Nautilus. Octopus Garden also includes: a hide-and-seek octopus game, an octopus memory quiz, octopus maze activity and two new educational presentations.
Sea Life Grapevine Aquarium transports you into the amazing underwater world. Prepare for astonishingly close views of everything from humble starfish and seahorses to graceful rays and powerful sharks. With an amazing 360° ocean tunnel, 30 display tanks and more than 5,000 sea creatures the aquarium is the perfect stop for family fun. To get any closer you would have to get wet. Admission is $19 for adults, $15 for children ages three to 12. For more information visit www.sealifeus.com/grapevine or call 1-877-819-7677.
Now you may win a family pass for four by leaving a clever comment below. Winner will be chosen at random Friday, April 6, 2012.
The place sounds fantastic.
This sounds like an incredible afternoon of fun with family!
I have two munchkins that would LOVE to go (and I would LOVE to go as well)!!! I would definitely win major points with them if we got these tickets!!!!!
We’ve been to the Dallas location would LOVE to try this location!!!
This would bring my 5 yr. old SO much joy! Alot of fun for our family!!
If I win the passes, I promise not to bring Octo-Mom as the 4th guest!
Would be great to see the space the cephalopods octopy!
Man I would love to get wet seeing these magnificent creatures ..
This would make a great date for me and boyfriend. We’re both sea life lovers!
When I was little, I wanted to be an oceanographer like Jean-Jacques Cousteau! I love sea life and being landlocked most of my life is no fun. I would LOVE to attend this and act like Cousteau for a day!! 🙂
I will promise to not allow my two girls to jump into the tank to go swimming.
I always wanted to cuddle with a cuddle fish and arm wrestle an octopus. Looks like the bucket list will be getting shorter!
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This sounds like fun!
Cephalopods are my favorite animal.
We will dress as a zebra, pharaoh, pacific blue and lastly a transparent suit. Let’s see how these imitators copy our.costumes.
I would love to award this to each of you, everyone is so passionate about this aquarium. But the prize can only go to one and Courtney wins in the random drawing. Congrats. You will be contacted by the PR firm.