Personal Narrative: My Trip To Shark Reef Aquarium

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Minh Hoang
Professor Kody Lightfoot
English 100
On Sunday last week, I went to Shark Reef Aquarium for the 1st. Actually, this is a coincidence because I did not intend to go to Shark Reef Aquarium. On that day, my uncle invited my father to Madalay Bay Casino to play gamble; he also brought his three kids and I became a supervisor to watch his kids while he and my father was playing gamble. I’m really felt bore; I saw many Aquarium and thought Shank Reef Aquarium would be same. But after visited it, my opinion was changed.
To start visit Shank Reed Aquarium I must buy ticket; it cost 15$ for me because I was resident in Nevada State and for the guest from $22-25. I think the price is fair, even cheaper than others aquarium in others state,
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This tank was roped off and a guard stood in front of it. This tank contained piranhas. These fish were really aggressive, especially when they were hungry, some visitor wanted to touch them but the guard said “just to see if piranhas did eat human flesh.” This is the reason why there is a guard to prevent someone touching the piranhas during the open times. Next, the small petting pool, I think this was the most entertainment in Shark Reef Aquarium because you could touch Motoro Stingray in a pool. There was a guide of Shark Reef Aquarium instructed I and others people how to touch rays. We could only use one finger to touch and must be gentle because we would make the rays scared. The first time encountered to this fish, I really like it, it skin so slippery and I felt more attractive to touch skin rays than caress the silken fur of dog, that why I spent near one hour to only to touch them. And one more interesting thing is that when I looked rays swimming in the pool I imaged they like birds with pectoral fins flapping up and down like they was flying on the sky. Also, while I was touching the rays, the guide told that, “Theses rays called Motoro Stingray and live in river. Their diet consists mainly of crustaceans,

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