Lights, action... sea creatures!

Join us for an exciting night exploration led by naturalists with lights off a pier. You can be part of the ever-popular night adventure on a floating dock with marine naturalists armed with ID books, flashlights, and knowledge of what to look for. It's "Pier Peer," where a submersible light is lowered into the dark water and everyone gathers around.

Some hydrozoan jelly fish appear, then a comb jelly rises up, the light refracting off its beating ctenes making rainbows along its surface.  The water quickly grows crowded with copopods, a siphonophore and then sometimes, a cheateagnath.  Someone spots a nudibranch on under the edge of the dock.  An arthropod reaches into the light from its hold on the dock to grab something floating by...

Here is education and exploration at its most exciting.  Families are welcome but children must be supervised.

Evening parties are limited to 40, so reservations are required. Well worth your time. Guaranteed.