{"id":26254,"date":"2019-09-16T16:09:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26254"},"modified":"2019-09-16T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:09:42","slug":"aquariums-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/aquariums-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffin Fish, Goblin Sharks and Vampire Squid featured at Aquariums this Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/spookyfish.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nature can be stranger than Halloween, as you&#8217;ll discover when you explore California&#8217;s aquariums, hosting a world of unique and eerie sea creatures such as &#8212; Ghostfish, Spookfish, Bat Rays, Wolf Eels, Viper Fish, Black Dragons, Bat Rays and Bloodbelly Comb Jellies.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to say which aquarium came up with the Halloween idea first (though we discovered the unique fish and their ghoulish looks thanks to Monterey Bay Aquarium&#8217;s promotions.) And like so many events surrounding Halloween, once one aquarium spread the word about their hauntingly-fascinating inhabitants, the idea jelled and suddenly every aquarium in California boasted a Halloween attraction!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/aquariums\/halloween.html\">Halloween at California Aquariums<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>LA JOLLA: Birch Aquarium&#8217;s Haunted Aquarium Sea Monster Mash is a sea of glowing beasts and spooky stories.<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Aquarium of the Pacific&#8217;s Scarium of the Pacific special Halloween program includes the annual children&#8217;s costume contest, creepy coloring, \u00a0underwater pumpkin carving show and spooky storytelling.<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY: Monterey Bay Aquarium Members&#8217; Halloween Dinner Dance is a one of the perks for those who join this esteemed institution. Once you pay your membership fee you qualify for\u00a0a frightfully fun evening of activities and ghostly good times!<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: SeaWorld San Diego Halloween Spooktacular&#8217;s enchanting underwater fantasea includes spooky shows, fun-fishy activities, wacky characters and gobs of ghoulish goodies.<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: California Academy of Sciences Steinhart Aquarium SuperNatural Halloween invites guests to\u00a0trick-or-treat through the Academy at night among eerie animals and spine-tingling specimens!<\/li>\n<li>SAN PEDRO: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Sea Scare has a new Trunk or Treat area this year, plus Party Zone and Haunted Maze!<\/li>\n<li>SANTA MONICA: Heal the Bay Aquarium Fishy Fest at Santa Monica Pier features Scary Story Time, Halloween Costume Parade &amp; Santa Monica Pier Trick or Treat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature can be stranger than Halloween, as you&#8217;ll discover when you explore California&#8217;s aquariums, hosting a world of unique and eerie sea creatures such as &#8212; Ghostfish, Spookfish, Bat Rays, Wolf Eels, Viper Fish, Black Dragons, Bat Rays and Bloodbelly Comb Jellies. It&#8217;s hard to say which aquarium came up with the Halloween idea first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26255,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26254\/revisions\/26255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}