{"id":16445,"date":"2014-05-16T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T10:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16445"},"modified":"2014-05-16T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T10:26:09","slug":"whale-of-a-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/whale-of-a-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale of a Tale!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/whadf.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You see, I was scuba diving when a giant Gray whale came right up to me!<\/p>\n<p>Swimmers in\u00a0Laguna Beach got\u00a0the\u00a0surprise of their life and a whale of tale to tell everyone back home when they recently saw a\u00a0magnificent Gray whale surface right next to them. Caught on camera from the Dana Wharf Whale Watching tour vantage point, the event went down as one of the all-star moments in vacation memories. While whale watching tours used to take place seasonally through March, you can now head out year-round to catch migrations of gray or\u00a0blue whales thanks to the abundance of whales spotted along the coast in recent years. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/boats\/whale-watching-boats.html\">Here&#8217;s a list of whale watching tours.<\/a>\u00a0In addition to whale there&#8217;s a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-events.html\"> boat load of festivals and events<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see, I was scuba diving when a giant Gray whale came right up to me! Swimmers in\u00a0Laguna Beach got\u00a0the\u00a0surprise of their life and a whale of tale to tell everyone back home when they recently saw a\u00a0magnificent Gray whale surface right next to them. Caught on camera from the Dana Wharf Whale Watching tour [&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\/16445"}],"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=16445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}