We arrived to find a small note posted on the door...

We arrived to find a small note posted on the door saying that none of the sea turtles were on site and that they had been moved to another facility due to renovations. Which is fine, if you tell people on your website since the sea turtles are a major draw and people might not want to come if the reason for visiting is not there. The center is small, it will take less than fifteen minutes to see everything, maybe twenty. You can pet the stingrays and they are very friendly and charismatic.

The gift shop is an utter disappointment. At the very front, there are metal straws to encourage people to recognize how much of a problem plastic is. Yet the gift shop is absolutely filled with plastic junk that best case scenario will end up in a landfill, and worst case scenario will end up in a sea turtle. They should focus on more environmentally friendly items to sell in the gift shop and I will take the Marine Science Center's mission more seriously.