Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations SPRING BREAAAAK! (at The Newport, KY Aquarium)

The Ship Hotel! Always stopped for ice cream on the way back from fishing. I googled it and found out it burned-down in 2001. What a sight that ship was on top of the mountain!

It was super cool. My grandfather used to take me there as a kid when we were in the area.

CJBS2003

About 6 months ago I was able to spend 2-3 of the most relaxing hours that I can remenber at the aquarium in Atlanta. I do a good bit of business travel and have had the opportunity to see the aquariums in Monterey, La Jolla, Baltimore, Ripley's in Myrtle Beach as well as the new(er) aquarium at the Pittsburgh Zoo. Hands down Atlanta was the most impressive.

My favorite exhibits were the Beluga Whales and most notably the salt water reef display where you can sit in front of a very large salt water tank with an incoming tide and thousands marine fish of every shape, size and color combination imaginable.

The others have similar exhibits but on a much, much smaller scale. Think 19" portable color TV vs a 72" HD flat panel

That's what I had heard as well... Thanks for the personal experience sharing. Looks like I am going to have to make a trip down the Atlanta this summer and drag the girl with me!

You won't regret it - it's great......

My catfish tourney has 2 tix for the Newport Aquarium as door prizes tomorrow and Id like to win them. I have been there a dozen times but always enjoy Aquariums, I used to travel for a living and would spend weekend at far, far away plaes and woud always go to aquariums and zoo's.
That said, the Chattanooga ( worlds largest freshwater aquarium) is by far the neatest one i ever been to, the Shedd in Chi town is cool also. After that would probably be Monteray and then Baltimore, and fianlly on ein Wash DC somewhere. forget Dallas, houston, one in LA and one somewhere In Florida, they blew....werent worth the money to get into and my clients were footing the bill even...


Salmonid

Looking at the sign-in book for that ship/hotel was pretty cool. They had some notable names in there though I can't remember who. Supposedly it was celebs from the 1930s to 1950s or so.

One time I was in there during one of the many iterations of operating a business, and I went to the rest room which was under the main floor. After the restroom, I walked down the hall and opened a few doors and it was like stepping back in time. The rooms hadn't been touched in years. Old furniture, odd fish-torture mechanisms, etc. It was wild.

outahere

There's about a dozen covered bridges within a half hour of our hunting property in Bedford Co. A number of them have been refurbished in recent years.

outahere

Blue Knob, highest skiable point in PA...