[Temp location: Howard Street] California Academy of Sciences / Steinhart Aquarium

This natural history museum is currently shoehorned into a tiny space next to Moscone center. Most of the current exhibits are of fish, snakes, turtles, frogs or lizards. The tropical fish tanks with coral are amazing and beautiful. There's a tank with a huge bass, probably magnified significantly by the special aquarium glass, but still quite impressive. In all, it's quite surprisingly entertaining, but only good for about an hour or so.

Will be curious to see the transformation when it moves back to permanent (LEEDS platinum) digs in Golden Gate park, but that's in 2010 Sep 2008!