{"id":21971,"date":"2016-01-22T00:33:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T08:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21971"},"modified":"2016-01-22T00:33:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T08:33:29","slug":"whale-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/whale-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale Festivals and Fiestas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/whfess.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whale festivals left to right: Dana Point Festival of Whales Parade; San Pedro Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Whale Fiesta child&#8217;s duct tape whale; and whale watchers at Whale of a Day at Point Vicente Interpretive Center in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.\u00a0Even though\u00a0whale watching ocean tours have become increasingly popular and have gone from seasonal winter boat rides to year round viewing opportunities, whale festivals and fiestas are generally\u00a0held January through March.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-whale-festivals.html\">WHALE FESTIVALS<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MONTEREY Whalefest<\/li>\n<li>SAN PEDRO: Whale Fiesta<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO\u00a0Whale Watch Weekend<\/li>\n<li>RANCHO PALSO VERDES <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/rancho-palos-verdes-whale-day.html\"> Whale of a Day Celebration<\/a><\/li>\n<li>DANA POINT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/dana-point-festival-of-whales.html\">Festival of Whales<\/a><\/li>\n<li>POINT CABRILLO Whale Festival Tours<\/li>\n<li>MENDOCINO Whale Festival<\/li>\n<li>FORT BRAGG MacKerricher SP Guided Whale Talks<\/li>\n<li>OXNARD Celebration of the Whales Festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whale festivals left to right: Dana Point Festival of Whales Parade; San Pedro Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Whale Fiesta child&#8217;s duct tape whale; and whale watchers at Whale of a Day at Point Vicente Interpretive Center in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.\u00a0Even though\u00a0whale watching ocean tours have become increasingly popular and have gone from seasonal winter boat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/21971"}],"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=21971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}