{"id":26078,"date":"2019-06-29T14:31:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T21:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26078"},"modified":"2019-06-29T14:31:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T21:31:16","slug":"patriotic-boat-parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/patriotic-boat-parades\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Patriotic Red, White &#038; Blue Boat Parades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/indyboa.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When life&#8217;s a beach, we like to say, &#8220;Whatever floats your boat.&#8221; No single celebration of the year resonates more with that philosophy in California than 4th of July. One place where it really rings true is the Russian River, where a day of water activities include a boat parade, water games and even a Float Parade that really DOES float your boat!<\/p>\n<p>Independence Day boating delights guests from all over the world who come to see our beaches, ocean, and bays lit up in a most amazing way.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the 4th and surrounding weekend there are homespun boat parades, rides and races to entertain. Here are just a few events that you won&#8217;t want to miss!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/boats.html\">California 4th Boats ABC to WXYZ<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ATASCADERO: Freedom Festival on Lake Atascadero July 4, 2019<\/li>\n<li>AVALON: 4th of July Dinghy Parade July 4<\/li>\n<li>AVILA BEACH: 4th of July Parade of Boats themed Cheeseburgers in Paradise July 4<\/li>\n<li>BERKELEY: Berkeley Canoe Racing Club free Dragon Boat rides July 4<\/li>\n<li>BUCKS LAKE: Annual Boat Parade \u00a0July 4<\/li>\n<li>CLEARLAKE OAKS: Clearlake Oaks Keys Boat Parade July 5<\/li>\n<li>FRESNO: Huntington Lake Independence Day Sailboat Parade July 6<\/li>\n<li>LAKEPORT: 4th of July Cardboard Duct Tape Regatta\u00a0Race July 4<\/li>\n<li>LAKE WILDWOOD: Fourth of July Boat Parade July 4<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: 4th of July Dinghy Parade July 4<\/li>\n<li>MONTE RIO: Russian River Water Curtain, Boat Parade and Float Parade<\/li>\n<li>NEWPORT BEACH: Old Glory Boat Parade July 4<\/li>\n<li>OCEANSIDE: Yankee Doodle Dinghy Parade July 4<\/li>\n<li>OXNARD: Fourth of July \u00a0Electric Boat Parade July 4<\/li>\n<li>TWO HARBORS: Dinghy Parade July 6<\/li>\n<li>WESTLAKE VILLAGE: 4th of July Electric Boat Parades &amp; Races July 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When life&#8217;s a beach, we like to say, &#8220;Whatever floats your boat.&#8221; No single celebration of the year resonates more with that philosophy in California than 4th of July. One place where it really rings true is the Russian River, where a day of water activities include a boat parade, water games and even a [&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\/26078"}],"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=26078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26079,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26078\/revisions\/26079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}