Atlantis Explorer Tour Boat Cruises - Riverhead, Long Island, NY

Atlantis Marine World educators always bring along some live creatures to entertain and educate passengers on the tour boat. They do their own version of "Fear Factor," where passengers ---usually kids---close their eyes, touch a sea creature and try to guess what it is. We learned plenty of weird and wild facts onboard.

We met a living starfish and learned that it's not really a fish, despite the name. This amazing creature can pry open clam shells, and then send out one of its two stomachs into the shell to digest its prey before bringing the nutrients back into its body.

At the end of our trip, the starfish and other marine creatures were dropped back into their homes in the Peconic River.