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Tuesday

Tiggerific Trivia ~ EPCOT's Living Seas

“We welcome you to The Living Seas. We welcome you to Seabase Alpha."
On January 15th, 1986 The Living Seas Pavilion opened at Disney World's EPCOT. It would be the third Future World Pavilion and a modern marvel with it's giant 5.7 million gallon saltwater tanks and coral reef tanks teaming with more varieties of fish than any of us had ever seen before.

EPCOT's Living Seas Pavilion ~ Photo ©Disney

Living Seas Seabase Alpha, Photo ©Disney

The Living Seas was always a highlight of our day at Epcot. I've written about it a few times. You can see the posts here and here. As Guests we saw a movie and took a ride in the Hydrolator down to Seasbase Alpha where we would ride a Seacab through the coral reefs. In Seabase Alpha there were educational demonstrations, manatees, divers and dolphins.
No trip to the Living Seas was complete without a trip to the Coral Reef Restaurant which specializes in fresh seafood and an amazing view of the aquarium.

Epcot's Living Seas Sea Turtle photo ©DebSilhan

Epcot's Living Seas Dolphin photo ©DebSilhan

Fun Facts:

The Living Seas would be the third Future World pavilion.

The Living Seas is 203 feet in diameter with walls of 48 feet high.

United Technologies was the pavilion sponsor.

"Animated Atlas of the World," was the name of the short educational film about the ocean.

The aquarium is the 5.7 million gallons.

The aquarium contains nearly 3,500 individual specimens comprising approximately 65 different species of Caribbean reef fish.

The Coral Reef Restaurant windows are 8 inches and made of thick acrylic.

Special thanks to Lost Epcot and the Walt Disney World Blog for this fun trivia. Also check out :The Seas with Nemo and Friends or this great source, Sea Turtle World, for even more information
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What is your favorite part of The Living Seas or as it's called now, The Seas with Nemo and Friends?

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Thursday

Under the Living Seas

~Epcot's Living Seas Pavilion~

When I think of "under the sea" I think of (as I'm sure many of you do) The Little Mermaid movie. I also think of the under world in The Seas with Nemo & Friends Pavilion in Epcot formerly known as The Living Seas Pavilion .

We've enjoyed many an afternoon watching the fish, enjoying demonstrations and of course riding in the little clam shells:)

This Butterflyfish spends its days cruising the Living Seas coraf reefs eating small crustaceans. Butterflyfish sometimes swim in schools and when they find a mate it's for life.

There's always something exciting going on in this amazing under water world. I think that's why it's a "must do" attraction for us. The pavilion tank is 5.7 million gallons with coral reefs and plant life growing throughout.

The pavilion has evolved over the years and each visit we discover new additions and more sea life. There are now more than 6,000 inhabitants, which include sea turtles, dolphins, rays and other sea life.

Making a Splash!

Having fun with filters in Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.Today I took a rather ordinary out of focus shot of a dolphin at The Living Seas Pavillion that I saved from the delete bin and made it.... well fun.

Living Seas ~ Flashback

It's hard to believe The Living Seas Pavilion is 25 years old!

This Butterflyfish spends its days cruising the Living Seas coraf reefs eating small crustaceans. Butterflyfish sometimes swim in schools and when they find a mate it's for life.

We started visitng Epcot in the late 80's and one of my favorite memories of those trips was spending hours....

no kidding hours in The Living Seas Pavillion at Epcot.There's always something exciting going on!

We'd stop long enough to eat at The Coral Reef hoping to see a diver or if you were really lucky Mickey himself. Then it would right back to see the another Living Seas demonstration or just watch in amazement and awe as a sea turtle swam by.

Most Sea Turtles are nomads and travel about 1300 miles a day! Mature females will often return, sometimes over thousands of miles, to the beach where they hatched to lay their eggs.

The exotic beauty of the Lionfish can literally take your breath away. The venomous sting of the Lionfish is extremely painful and can cause nausea and breathing difficulties.It relies on camouflage and lightning-fast reflexes to capture prey, mainly fish and shrimp.

We have lots of wonderful memories of The Living Seas. DS still enjoys his fascination with the aquatic. He's built and maintains two fresh water gallonormous (no idea how many gallons they're just huge) tanks and a salt water reef. I'm so looking forward to our next trip in the spring and maybe this time we'll do Dive Quest!