North Carolina Estuarium

Reviews about North Carolina Estuarium

• Nate Harvey

  Oct, 27 2018
  ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
  The staff was friendly and informative, but this place is not worth the $5 it costs to get in, which is sad.
  
  When you enter, you're greeted by a "sculpture" made of driftwood that supposedly represents the state. The top is pinecones, to represent the mountains, the middle is washed up bottles to represent the Raleigh/Durham area, and the coast is represented by parallel sticks. The pinecones are pretty clearly from long leaf pines, which don't grow in the mountains, the bottles look trashy (are they saying RDU is garbage??), and if you were not told that the parallel sticks were supposed to be plowed fields, you'd have no idea. Dumb.
  
  The demonstration of the water cycle is neat. They have a small elevated track around the sculpture and lobby with a rubber ball that represents a water droplet.
  
  There is a short video presentation that includes some aerial photography, shot in standard definition, and seems to be more of a music video then an informative presentation. If the presentation were updated, in the vein of the BBC Life series, it would be worth watching.
  
  There are a few small aquariums, whose few fish only sometimes match those on the plaque.
  
  The location is very scenic, which is simultaneously the best and most disappointing part... I'm just not sure the building is worth going into at all in its present format and condition.
  
  The whole place feels like some politician's Pet Project, that was underfunded, and constructed by that same politician's buddies, regardless of scientific qualifications, or vision.
  
  There is a lot of potential here, but sadly, it's not being fulfilled. You'll be better off heading on out to the aquarium, and stopping at Goose Creek State Park.

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