Theater of the Sea is an educational and entertaining marine animal park where performances are up close and personal. You can swim with dolphins, sea lions, and stingrays in their natural salt water lagoons through the interactive swim programs. The lagoons, and lush, tropical gardens at are home to Atlantic bottlenose dolphins, California sea lions, sea turtles, tropical and game fish, sharks, stingrays, alligators, marine invertebrates, colorful parrots, and birds-of-prey.
Excellent place to get up close and personal with many varieties of animals. I researched all the dolphin program’s in the Keys and picked this one for my 9 year old daughter to have a swim experience. The staff far exceeded my expectation. Our dolphin trainer/handler was amazing. She truly cared about my daughter’s experience while obviously loving what she does. The in water experience was a lot more then any of the other places offer.The park was not crowded so we could interact with the other exhibits without other people leaning over our shoulders. Great snorkling beach for when it heats up in the day. A++++ for all the staff from the ladies who checked us in to the mammal trainers.Great day and worth every penny.
We waded instead of swimming with the dolphins. I’m really glad we did. We had much more time with the beautiful creature named Sheri Momma. Oldest dolphin there at 49 years. We received kisses from her and we hugged, cradled and petted her sides, back and belly. She did plenty of talking to us as well. An experience I’ll never forget. The Theater has many great shows with parrots, sea lions an dolphins. Great place for kids.
We really liked the dolphin and sea lion shows and just walking around checking out the other animals. The big down side for us was that we couldn’t bring in outside food. We had prepared a picnic lunch for the day. But we had to leave to enjoy it. This should have been on the website.
Went there yesterday and I loved it
We had ab amazing time. One if our family members has a service dog and the staff was very welcoming and accomodating. Grandma very much enjoyed having the sea lion paint her a picture. The rest of us loved swimming with the aea lions.