| So my parents haven’t been to Galveston in a long time. We took off and took highway-6 south and went round downtown Houston and took the hour-long trip to the island. I was hoping the trip down would have less traffic this way but south Houston has grown up and is now packed with new subdivisions and strip malls. Highway 6 is less a highway and more of a large and very busy city street.
We planned on Moody Gardens. It’s a big park (half zoo and half aquarium) on the island and is one of the big attractions. They decided to put it all inside giant pyramid-shaped buildings. The aquarium part in a conventional but pyramid-shaped building and the zoo in a large glass enclosed hot-house.
Since it was the off-season, the crowds were fairly small. The aquarium has one of those tubes you walk in and get surrounded by fish, and turtles and sharks
Interesting to see, though somewhat fish smelly. They had animals and fish from all the oceans of the world and a little fish themed cafeteria that we decided to skip. I’ve been to several aquariums and this did not seem all that special. The tropical rainforest however was great. It’s a bunch of rainforests from all over the world in a giant glass pyramid. They had gathered flowers, trees, and exotic plants from all over the tropics. My mother is a gardening fanatic and loved it all.
There were parrots, lizards, monkeys, and an ocelot. The ocelot was sullen and barely even appeared but it was a nice little zoo. All set to rainforest themes and complete with replica concrete Mayan temples.
It was a nice cool 80 degrees inside and very humid, perfect walking weather. A nicely executed tourist attraction. We then went up and down the seawall looking for a place to eat. We hoped to get into Gaido’s, Galveston’s premier seafood place however everything in and around that restaurant was packed. We ended up at Landry’s seafood on the seawall. A long-long trip but well worth it. |
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