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photos.ALBj.net → 2009 → Chattanooga Sightseeing and Southern Adventist University's Strawberry Festival, April 17-19, 2009

A long weekend trip up to Southern Adventist University to see what had become of the end-of-year multimedia show after about 20 years. The trip also included a visit to the Bluff View Art District and Tennessee Aquarium.

Bluff View Art District
iPhone shot

Bluff View Art District
iPhone shot - Opposite side of the river.

Tennessee Aquarium
iPhone shot

Standing on a glass bridge
No, the minivan wasn't warped like that. Weird image capturing algorithm in the iPhone.

Tony's Restaurant
iPhone shot - In the Bluff View Art District.

Point Park, Lookout Mountain
iPhone shot

The crowd enters
iPhone shot - Strawberry Festival.

Prepping for the 2009 Strawberry Festival
iPhone shot - Radically different setup than what we had in 92!! This shot was taken at the full dry run around 2pm.

Crowd seated, waiting to begin
iPhone shot - Strawberry Festival.

Lining up for yearbooks
iPhone shot - Strawberry Festival.

Hunter Museum of American Art
www.huntermuseum.org/

Tennessee River panorama
Seen from the Bluff View Art District.

Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
This sculpture appears to be made out of driftwood, but it's actually all bronze.

Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Under the foot bridge
Maybe I'm just weird, but the patterns of the support bars below the foot bridge were interesting to me.

Purple flowers
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Purple flowers
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Purple flowers
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Purple flowers
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Foot bridge
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Tennessee River
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Boat on the Tennessee River
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Boat on the Tennessee River
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Delta Queen
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Kayak on the Tennessee River
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Tennessee River
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Chattanooga park flora
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Chattanooga park flora
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Chattanooga park flora
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Chattanooga park flora
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Chattanooga park flora
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Chattanooga park art
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Bluff View Art District
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Tennessee Aquarium
Looking off to the Tennessee Aquarium from the art museum.

Glass foot bridge crossing from the art museum to aquarium
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Looking down through the glass bridge
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Looking back to the art museum from the aquarium
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Tennessee Aquarium
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Tennessee Aquarium
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Tennessee Aquarium
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Tennessee Aquarium
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Tennessee Aquarium
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Tennessee Aquarium
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Tennessee Aquarium
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Art outside the Tennessee Aquarium
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Tennessee Aquarium escalator
Escalator in the aquarium. Neat light patterns.

Seahorse
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Seahorse
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Seahorse
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Seahorse
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Seahorse
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Seahorse
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Seaweed seahorse
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Seaweed seahorse
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Seaweed seahorse
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Crustacean
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Immersed
Don't know who the kid is, but I had to take a picture of the cuteness.

Arboretum
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Arboretum flowers
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Arboretum flowers
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Arboretum flowers
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Arboretum flowers
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Arboretum
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Otters
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Otters
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Otters
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Otters
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Waterfall
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Under the river
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Poisonous dart frog
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Ribbit
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Ribbit
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Ribbit x2
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The Canyon
"The Canyon" is an excellent nickname for the main hall of the aquarium's River Journey building.

Gator
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Gator
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Gator
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Turtle
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Turtle
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Turtle
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Fowl
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Turtle
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Sturgeon are ugly!
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Sturgeon are ugly!
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Sturgeon are ugly!
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Fowl
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Fish and fowl
The fish were nipping at the ducks' feet as they swam.

Bigmouth fish
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Bigmouth fish
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Fish
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Fish
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Fish
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Fish
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Pool floor
The very bottom of "The Canyon" isn't a walkable floor. It's covered in a shallow pool, and the bottom has a March of the Turtles art piece.

Bird trainer
The next photos are all from the Ocean Journey building which, I believe, was relatively new (at the time) compared to the River Journey building in the prior photos.

Bird trainer
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Bird trainer
Hard to see, but the bird has one leg up, on command from the trainer.

Bird trainer
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Bird trainer
No, he wasn't eating popcorn. These birds like gnawing on the cardboard.

Bird trainer
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Bird trainer
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Stingray
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Stingray
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Stingray pool
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Stingray pool
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Butterfly garden
Fabulous butterfly garden at the Tennessee Aquarium—much better than the little one Epcot set up for the Flower and Garden Festival.

Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Butterfly garden
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Penguins
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Penguins
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Penguins
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Fish
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Coral
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Octopus
Yes, very bad photo. Too dark. Couldn't focus and couldn't get a shutter speed faster than about a quarter of a second. But if you can make it out, it's a pretty large octopus.