Clearwater Aquarium

As its name suggests, the Clearwater Aquarium is located in Clearwater, Florida. It is a home for rescued dolphins, sea turtles and otters. It is also home to various fish, stingray and nurse sharks. The most famous resident is Winter, who is a female dolphin who got tangled in a fishing net so badly that her tail eventually fell off. She learned how to swim without using a side-to-side motion similar to a shark rather than the up and down motion normal to dolphins, but as the muscle use was so different, a prosthetic tail was made for her. It is put on her a few hours a day but she uses the shark-motion otherwise.While we were there we saw the feeding of a sea turtle who had air in her shell and could therefore not dive under the water. There were also sea turtles at the aquarium who were missing fins mostly from motor boats, but also from sharks and other predators.We waited a little bit for the dolphin show which was really awesome. They told us about the four dolphins that live at the aquarium (for various reasons) and the methods in place to help return dolphins to the wild when they are injured or beached. They also had the dolphins perform for us which was really neat.The aquarium is about $13 to enter (for adults). I thought the entertainment alone was worth the money, let alone the rescue efforts they perform on a regular basis. I really like it despite its small size.
(Winter and her prosthetic tail image found through Google as she wasn't in a posing mode when we visited the aquarium.)