Friday, July 15, 2011

25 Things Members can do at the Flint RiverQuarium

 
  1. Watch divers feed 60 pound bass, catfish, bowfin and grass carp
  2. Trick or Treat through the RiverQuarium down to Thronateeska and back again
  3. Get a discount on a children’s birthday party and invite all your friends to tour the RiverQuarium with you
  4. Pet a white spotted bamboo shark
  5. Watch a tadpole become a frog
  6. Watch the alligator feeding 52 times
  7. Attend a members-only Christmas party complete with Santa diving in the Blue Hole
  8. Bring a toddler to Tadpole Time for a story, snack and craft
  9. Rent the RiverQuarium for a private celebration at a 10% discount 
  10. Watch Dillinger and Eastwood – double crested cormorants – bicker over their fish
  11. Touch a real live alligator, or an eastern king snake, a rat snake or a corn snake
  12. Find out why gopher tortoises are a keystone species – and what a keystone species is
  13. Take your picture with Flint, a man-sized turtle
  14. Travel back to the Late Cretaceous, when the sea was dominated by giant marine reptiles, some as large as present-day whales by watching Sea Monsters in the Imagination Theater
  15. Every Sunday, buy one popcorn, get a second popcorn free
  16. Receive a 10% discount on any purchase in the Gift Shop
  17. Enjoy special crafts, games and experiments at Discovery Days every other Sunday AND become a Flint Ultimate Naturalist
  18. Wait for Archae, our resident Bluejay, to land on your shoulder and beg for peanuts
  19. Attend Fin-tas-Tic Holiday Day camps
  20. Check out Big Bertha – a 10 foot Burmese python
  21. Find all the fish from Finding Nemo in the Gift Shop
  22. Go on a ‘Critter Hunt’ after  downloading pictures here: http://www.flintriverquarium.com/scavengerhunt.html
  23. Bring your friends and Sleep With the Fishes
  24. Find out how much Big Al, our alligator snapping turtle, weighs
  25. Enjoy free admission to the Flint RiverQuarium for a full year!