Luna and me

I took the morning to go to the aquarium by myself to see Miss Luna in her new home.  She has been at the aquarium for years in her own enclosure.  She had water, but no friends - and she had her favorite heat lamp!

Well, now that she has gotten bigger, they have moved her out of her lonely enclosure and given her a new home with 3 friends!  She now lives in a much deeper tank with 3 green alligators!

They monitored her entrance into this new area very closely and all 4 alligators are getting along swimmingly.  In the wild, there could be a chance where an albino alligator would not be accepted by the others, but here, she is the biggest - and they 3 smaller green gators have taken to her just fine.  The volunteers were telling me about her first days in her new digs.  She actually had to learn how to swim!  She showed off a little for me, too.

I have taken many pictures of her over the years, but never this close!

Here is an older shot I have of her.  This was in a local museum's exhibit with my camera club recently.
Miss Luna

Isn't she the prettiest thing?