{"id":12672,"date":"2013-06-22T03:18:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T10:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12672"},"modified":"2013-06-22T03:25:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T10:25:35","slug":"keeping-fun-in-the-balboa-fun-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/keeping-fun-in-the-balboa-fun-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Fun in the Balboa Fun Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/funzrid.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New rides in Balboa Fun Zone include a Bungee Jump (not shown), Mechanical Shark and the newest from Australia called a Fishpipe.<\/p>\n<p>While local Balboa residents lament the loss of a carousel for kids to ride in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/balboa-island-fun-zone.html\"> Balboa Fun Zone<\/a>, the latest and newest attractions that colorfully greet visiting tourists include a big bubble that looks like a giant blowfish. You enter the inflated ball and it begins to spin. As it starts spinning, water from a chamber gently washes past you as you try to stand up or climb to no avail. This Fishpipe is now the 3rd attraction introduced by ExplorOcean (explorocean.org), a themed museum on the Newport Peninsula bayfront next to several arcades and a Ferris Wheel. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/boats\/balboa-ferry-photo.html\">Balboa Ferry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reservations.stockteam.com\/856_attraction-tickets_a99.html\">Catalina Flyer<\/a> and Newport Landing Fishing \/ Whale Watching boat tours \u00a0are also in and around the Fun Zone. If you&#8217;re going on a trip to Catalina, be sure to make the Fun Zone part of your adventure. Events such as Science Saturdays include free arts &amp; crafts sessions for kids and adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New rides in Balboa Fun Zone include a Bungee Jump (not shown), Mechanical Shark and the newest from Australia called a Fishpipe. While local Balboa residents lament the loss of a carousel for kids to ride in Balboa Fun Zone, the latest and newest attractions that colorfully greet visiting tourists include a big bubble that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}