Monterey

  • Joe at the Aquarium

    Joe at the Aquarium

    I pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues.

  • Otter

    Otter

    The emblem, not the animal, mattered. We swatted mosquitoes, made no pilgrimages to Vermont to see bears and moose. I wanted to get as close as possible to my potential animal totem.

  • Wild Water Kingdom

    If anything, the private spaces of the Monterey Bay Aquarium are even more magical that the public ones. The exact same aesthetic sensibility that pervades the viewing galleries—clean, calm, scientifically sound, technologically advanced—also characterizes the service corridors, which is nice…