Round up the kids and pay a visit to the recently revamped Pier Aquarium, which boasts a new 860-gallon touch tank of sharks, stingrays, lobsters, crabs, sea stars and urchins — all sea life found in Tampa Bay underwater habitats. Four new "ocean" tanks feature Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico swimmers like eels, queen angel fish, scorpion fish and others as well as invertebrates and several species of unusual sargassum fish and frogfish. For more information, visit pieraquarium.org. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-6 p.m. Sun., The Pier, 800 Second Ave. N.E., St. Petersburg, $5 adults/$4 students and seniors (members and children 6 and younger enter for free), 727-895-7437.
This article appears in Jul 4-10, 2007.