Aquaquest · Newport Aquarium

Freshwater Falls exhibit with fish, submerged branches and falling water.

✦ YOUR NEXT LITTLE OBSESSION

Freshwater FallsLOWER LEVEL · STOP 01

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Freshwater Falls exhibit with fish, submerged branches and falling water.

Photo: Newport Aquarium ↗

DISCOVERY 01 / 14 Everyday wonder

Go against the flow.

YOUR RIDDLE

I race without leaving my place, with a river rushing past my face. No anchor holds me where I stay—what swimmer points the other way?

Camera magic optional. Curiosity essential.

No clock. Just curiosity.

✦ Bonus discoveries

Optional finds. Open a card for its riddle, hints and story.

B01

Submerged branches on a freshwater bottom with fish nearby; habitat reference

Bonus discovery

A drowned perch

I once belonged above the stream; now water wraps my wooden beam. Find my branches down below, and see which neighbors come and go.

Freshwater FallsLook closer B02

A tall angelfish beside shorter rounded freshwater fish; body-shape comparison reference

Bonus discovery

Silhouette twins?

One body stretches, one stands tall; the same outline will not fit all. Find two swimmers shaped unlike, and show your crew what makes them strike.

Freshwater FallsLook closer

✧ The wonderfully weird

Optional finds. Open a card for its riddle, hints and story.

O01

Reedfish (Erpetoichthys calabaricus) over gravel; species reference photograph

Oddity

The borrowed breath

I look like a snake, but scales can deceive. Water is not the only place I breathe. With gills for the stream and lungs as well, which slender swimmer breaks the fish-shaped spell?