Great place to go
I would suggest going here if you want to have fun with your family on the coast.
It's a great atmosphere with touch tanks, tunnels underwater, a bird exhibit, and depending on when you go a different exhibit almost every year. It's very easy to log on to their website to tell when they are putting up a new exhibit and to plan your trip for a different time.
The staff is very friendly, and very knowledgeable in the different species and varieties of marine life; they tell you about their diets, habitats, lifestyles, predators, and more.
It's well worth the price if you plan on going once, or buying a membership to go back over and over; the staff makes sure to keep the glass outsides of the tanks very clean so you can get good photos, excellent photo opportunities btw; also most of the stuff is indoors so if the weather does take a turn for the worse you have somewhere to go, also some of the outdoor exhibits have shelter you can stand under and still see the animals.
Definitely a must go, i would rate it a 9/10 far better than the aquarium in Seattle by far, A LOT MORE marine animals that aren't just fish; you actually get to see sharks, sting rays, and various other animals (alligators, puffer fish, spider crabs, multiple varieties of jelly fish, sea birds, ect)
well worth it, so go and find out for yourselves!