Hatfield Marine Science Visitor Center — Attraction in Newport

If you can't tell, I'm a little obsessed with their octopus! She is such an active, little performer. She has a very magnetic personality!

We brought the kids one day, and to be honest, they spent most of the time on the tsunami maker and tide pools. They loved them. The adults even had a lot of fun on them, too.

Being that the admission is only $5 (when is that heard of?!?), and that it's an easy bike ride from South Shore State Park Camp Grounds, I went back an afternoon by myself when it didn't feel like I was hearding cats, and spent a couple hours on my own.

It's cheap, it's easy to get to, the staff are super friendly and love answering your questions. It's a...

This place has changed a lot since Covid. Before you could show up when you wanted and donate if wanted to which after the experience you would feel the desire to. Now you have to make online reservations for a time slot and pay $3 per adult. Not an outrageous amount of money but this place doesn't give you the same experience everytime you go so having a flat rate of $3 seems just unfair. In the past I would've said I'll definitely be back but now I would really have to want to go to come back. Maybe as things recover post covid things will go back to how they were but only...

I remember being a small kid and going here many times with school and family trips. I've moved out of state 10yrs ago and got to come back. My kids still got the same wonder from when they where toddlers. It was wonderful to see and my teenager fell in love all over again with aquatic and marine biology. My youngest who is autistic, had the time of his life playing with everything interactive and seeing so many marine biomes with their wildlife there. It made it so much more real to him to understand. Also was impressed with how much the tidal pools...