Sea Venture

While enjoying our day at Discovery Cove, our entire family participated in the Sea Venture experience. My mother had a similar experience on a cruise excursion and said it was a unique experience that we shouldn’t miss. I wasn’t nervous about it at all until I saw the safety video and signed the papers – they kept saying how important it was to breath normally, made us all wonder why we wouldn’t breath normally. I kept telling myself that it is only 20 minutes and there are quite a few divers there to make sure everything is fine.

The experience is in the Grand Reef, the same waterway where you can snorkel all day long. You are required to wear a wet suit for this experience so we got our wet suits when we were passing by the area after our 1st lunch. In August these can be a bit hot so we just tried them on and then left them 1/2 way down until we checked in. Continue reading Discovery Cove’s Sea Venture

I have wanted to go to Discovery Cove since it opened and it FINALLY happened! Our family spent the day in paradise. Before purchasing our tickets, we discussed the different packages and the availability of private cabanas as a family and we decided that this is probably a once-in-a-lifetime event. We decided to splurge and purchase the Elite package (more on packages in a different post) which includes a private cabana.

A friend told me to “arrive when it opens and stay until they put you out” – she was right!. Although the waterways do not open until 8:30, breakfast is served early and the doors open at 7:15 am. We arrived in the parking lot by 7:30 am and the line to enter was very long, we must have been one of the last people to arrive since the line was not very long behind us. We stood in line for about 30 minutes but it was always moving and the foliage was beautiful. Although the park was almost full to capacity, it was the only line we stood in all day long.

An excellent variety of good food was available for breakfast. The empty coffee

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