{"id":9065,"date":"2012-10-10T12:38:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T19:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=9065"},"modified":"2012-10-10T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T19:38:59","slug":"california-pier-aquariums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-pier-aquariums\/","title":{"rendered":"California Pier Aquariums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pieraq2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos left to right:\u00a0 A wolf eel at Santa Monica Pier Aquarium; entrance to Ty Warner Sea Center on Stearns Wharf, Santa Barbara; Aquarium of the Bay on Pier 39 in San Francisco<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/pleasure-pier-showdown-santa-cruz-santa-monica-or-san-diego\/\">pleasure piers<\/a> are colorful, fun and offer lots of things to see, do and taste,\u00a0 adding to any beach visit. In addition to providing entertainment, there are pier attractions that also educate in a fun manner. Though few and far between,\u00a0 aquariums and sea life centers on piers fit that bill. From the Manhattan Beach Pier Roundhouse aquarium, to the piers of Santa Monica, Santa Barbara and San Francisco, tourists and local residents can see and explore the sea life that dwells within the vast Pacific Ocean. Touch tanks, aquariums and hands-on exhibits allow guests to get close and personal with the ocean creatures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/aquariums\/california-pier-aquariums.html\"><strong>Pier Aquariums in California<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANHATTAN BEACH Pier Roundhouse Marine Studies Lab and Aquarium<br \/>\nSAN FRANCISCO PIER 39 Aquarium of the Bay<br \/>\nSANTA BARBARA Stearns Wharf Ty Warner Sea Center<br \/>\nSANTA MONICA Pier Aquarium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos left to right:\u00a0 A wolf eel at Santa Monica Pier Aquarium; entrance to Ty Warner Sea Center on Stearns Wharf, Santa Barbara; Aquarium of the Bay on Pier 39 in San Francisco California&#8217;s pleasure piers are colorful, fun and offer lots of things to see, do and taste,\u00a0 adding to any beach visit. In [&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\/9065"}],"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=9065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}