Texas State Aquarium

This attraction showcases the aquatic animals and habitats indigenous to the Gulf of Mexico. Visitors enter the interpretive center beneath a cascading waterfall. The Islands of Steel exhibit features a replica of an offshore oil platform surrounded by nurse sharks, amberjack, and other marine creatures commonly found around these man-made reefs.

Nearby the Flower Gardens Coral Reef exhibit focuses on the beautiful coral gardens found 115 miles off the coast, which attract marine animals such as moray eels, tarpon, and rays.

Outdoors, young visitors enjoy touch tanks filled with small sharks and rays, the Otter Space where playful river otters amuse visitors with their antics. In the Octopus' Garden, a 20-foot tall purple octopus invites young visitors to enjoy a marine-inspired playground.

Location: 2710 Shoreline Dr.

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