most of the galleries were closed due to construction of a new Sable Island themed area, but I got some sneak peaks of the construction and it looks pretty cool
the mounted galleries, live galleries and part of the marine gallery were/are still open
I also splurged at the gift shop, they never used to carry safari, but it seems they finally are
at first I saw they only had tubes and was rather underwhelmed, then I saw they had the new (like, brand new) released tubes, and I got pretty excited
picked up the deep sea creatures tube, it only had 7 instead of the usual dozen or so creatures in it but they are each about 4X the size and very detailed, most of the fish are life sized
also picked up some safari whale cafes and a schleich tortoise from the dollar bins