{"id":25083,"date":"2018-04-21T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25083"},"modified":"2018-04-21T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T23:30:11","slug":"sea-life-aquariums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/sea-life-aquariums\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Sea Life at California&#8217;s Aquariums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/aqupa.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Californians have come out in force to celebrate Earth Day with special focus in 2018 on the Earth&#8217;s oceans and water bodies which make up approx. 75% of the planet&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<p>California is lucky to have more than one aquarium offering year-round celebrating, educating and learning about the sea and its creatures. While more than 50% of residents live less than 50 miles from the Pacific Ocean, most of us don&#8217;t get a chance to see what lives within the sea. Aquariums to the rescue! More than a dozen aquariums in the state give residents &amp; visitors opportunities to see sea life up close and personal.<\/p>\n<p>SeeCalifornia.com spent Earth Day 2018 researching \u00a0what&#8217;s going on at California&#8217;s aquariums to pique your interest and help you plan your next great adventure!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-aquariums.html\">California Aquarium Festivals &amp; Events<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>This is a partial list of highlights. Click link above to &#8220;sea&#8221; more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AVILA BEACH: Central Coast Aquarium<br \/>\nSharks After Dark May 21, 2018<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Aquarium of the Pacific<br \/>\nUrban Ocean Festival April 28-29<br \/>\nUrban Ocean Cruise June 9, July 14, August 11, Sept.8<\/li>\n<li>LA JOLLA: \u00a0Birch Aquarium<br \/>\nGreen Flash Concert Series May-September<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY: Monterey Bay Aquarium<br \/>\nDia del Nino April 29<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: SeaWorld<br \/>\nSesame Street Parade May 5 &#8211; Sept.2<br \/>\nFireworks Spectacular May 26 &#8211; 28, July 4, &amp; Sept.1- 2<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Steinhart Aquarium<br \/>\nBig Bang Gala After Dark May 10<\/li>\n<li>SAN PEDRO: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium<br \/>\nGrunion Fish-tival May 17<br \/>\nWorld Oceans Day June 9<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: Stearns Wharf Sea Center<br \/>\nWorld Oceans Day Festival June 9<\/li>\n<li>SANTA MONICA: Santa Monica Pier Aquarium<br \/>\nBring Back the Beach Bash May 17<\/li>\n<li>VALLEJO: Six Flags Discovery Kingdom<br \/>\nSharks After Dark Sleepovers May 19, June 15, July 14, Aug.4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Californians have come out in force to celebrate Earth Day with special focus in 2018 on the Earth&#8217;s oceans and water bodies which make up approx. 75% of the planet&#8217;s surface. California is lucky to have more than one aquarium offering year-round celebrating, educating and learning about the sea and its creatures. While more than [&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\/25083"}],"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=25083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25084,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25083\/revisions\/25084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}