{"id":25671,"date":"2019-01-02T14:16:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T22:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25671"},"modified":"2019-01-02T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T22:16:42","slug":"well-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/well-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Well, It&#8217;s a Whale of a Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/wgalez.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you follow one of Southern California&#8217;s premier whale-centric organizations, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, the experts there proclaimed, &#8220;Whale watch season begins December 26th and runs through mid-April. Don&#8217;t miss your chance to see the Pacific gray whale! All boats include a trained naturalist from Cabrillo Whalewatch, a joint effort of the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and American Cetacean Society Los Angeles Chapter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s going to argue with that? Lots of whale watch tour operators, of course, who offer trips year-round to see whales off the California coast. It&#8217;s all a matter of perspective and one thing&#8217;s for certain &#8212; there is no shortage of enthusiasm for something as huge as whales and their migrations.<\/p>\n<p>Get on board this year and make this your personal story, whether you simply study the migrations, attend a whale festival or event, or take a Pacific Ocean trip. While most can handle the ocean currents and unexpected turbulence, if you feel a little queasy about the prospects of getting sick in a boat, there are plenty of fantastic whale watching vistas on the California coast.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/boats\/whale-watching-boats.html\">Where to see whales?<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>San Diego<\/li>\n<li>Dana Point<\/li>\n<li>Newport Beach<\/li>\n<li>Long Beach<\/li>\n<li>San Pedro<\/li>\n<li>Redondo Beach<\/li>\n<li>Oxnard<\/li>\n<li>Ventura<\/li>\n<li>Santa Barbara<\/li>\n<li>Morro Bay<\/li>\n<li>Monterey<\/li>\n<li>Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>Mendocino<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-whale-festivals.html\">Whale Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Monterey Wharf &#8211; January<\/li>\n<li>San Pedro &#8211; January<\/li>\n<li>Dana Point &#8211; March<\/li>\n<li>Point Cabrillo &#8211; March<\/li>\n<li>Fort Bragg &#8211; March<\/li>\n<li>Mendocino &#8211; March<\/li>\n<li>Little River &#8211; March<\/li>\n<li>Rancho Palos Verdes &#8211; April<\/li>\n<li>Sonoma Mendocino Whale and Jazz Festival &#8211; April &amp; May<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow one of Southern California&#8217;s premier whale-centric organizations, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, the experts there proclaimed, &#8220;Whale watch season begins December 26th and runs through mid-April. Don&#8217;t miss your chance to see the Pacific gray whale! All boats include a trained naturalist from Cabrillo Whalewatch, a joint effort of the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and [&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\/25671"}],"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=25671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25672,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25671\/revisions\/25672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}