{"id":4091,"date":"2012-01-30T11:05:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2012-10-01T01:14:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T08:14:02","slug":"california-whale-festivals-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-whale-festivals-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"California Whale Festivals 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/rpvtras1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no bones about it, whale festivals aren&#8217;t boring events. Pictured is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/plastic-trash-zombies-dance-4-oceans\/\">Plastic Trash Zombies Dance 4 Oceans <\/a>group performing the Michael Jackson Thriller dance in the dance troupe&#8217;s\u00a0 signature costumes made of plastic trash!<\/p>\n<p>All along the California coast from Mendocino to San Diego people are coming for the celebrations and festivals of the whales. You&#8217;ll have a whale of a good time as you learn about the many types of whales that live along or traverse the\u00a0 California coast, visible from vantage points and beaches if you take the time to look (a good set of binoculars helps.)\u00a0 The entertaining and educational whale events are huge and promise to offer hands-on fun to help you get into the spirit of learning about the water world in which 75% of life dwells.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-whale-festivals.html\">California Whale Festivals <\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\n(San Diego, Monterey and San Pedro whale festivals were held in January)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><\/strong><strong>Dana Point Festival of Whales<\/strong> March 3 -4, 10-11, 2012\u00a0 festivalofwhales.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fort Bragg<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Point Cabrillo Whale Festival<\/strong>\u00a0 March 3, 4, 17, 18, 2012\u00a0 pointcabrillo.org<\/li>\n<li type=\"_moz\"><strong>Little River Mendo Whale Festival<\/strong> March 10 &amp; 11, 2012\u00a0 mendowhale.com<\/li>\n<li type=\"_moz\"><strong>MacKerricher State Park Whale Festival<\/strong>\u00a0 March 16-18, 2012 parks.ca.gov<\/li>\n<li type=\"_moz\"><strong>Malibu<\/strong> <strong>Earth Day Whale Festiva<\/strong>l April 17, 2011 Leo Carrillo State Park,\u00a0 earthdaywhalefest.org<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li type=\"_moz\"><strong>Fort Bragg\u00a0 <\/strong>March 17 &amp; 18, 2012 mendowhale.com<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li type=\"_moz\"><strong>Mendocino Whale Festival\u00a0<\/strong> March 3 &amp; 4, 2012\u00a0 mendowhale.com<\/li>\n<li type=\"_moz\"><strong>Mendo Whale Festival<\/strong> March 17 &amp; 18, 2012\u00a0 mendowhale.com<\/li>\n<li type=\"_moz\"><strong>Oxnard\u00a0 Celebration of the Whales Festival<\/strong> March 18, 2012 channelislandsharbor.org<\/li>\n<li type=\"_moz\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/rancho-palos-verdes-whale-day.html\"><strong>Rancho Palos Verdes\u00a0 Whale of a Day<\/strong><\/a> March 3, 2012 losserenos.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no bones about it, whale festivals aren&#8217;t boring events. Pictured is the Plastic Trash Zombies Dance 4 Oceans group performing the Michael Jackson Thriller dance in the dance troupe&#8217;s\u00a0 signature costumes made of plastic trash! All along the California coast from Mendocino to San Diego people are coming for the celebrations and festivals of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091"}],"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=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}