{"id":6754,"date":"2012-06-29T12:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T19:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2012-07-27T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T22:22:47","slug":"having-a-whale-of-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/having-a-whale-of-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Having a Whale of a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bluewhales.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/information\/craig-macdonald-author.html\"> C. MacDonald<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN (10 miles off the Long Beach,\u00a0CA)&#8211;You&#8217;ll have a whale of a time on the Harbor Breeze&#8217;s exciting Whale Watching tours that leave Dock 2, next to the Aquarium of the Pacific twice a day.<\/p>\n<p>We recently ventured out on our first whale watching tour aboard the impressive, especially designed Harbor Breeze ship, Christopher. It\u00a0has a cool, outdoor\u00a0stadium seating section in the bow (front), where you can see (and hear) marine life up close and personal and listen to wonderful narration of what you&#8217;re seeing from\u00a0veteran\u00a0Captain Bill Collins and Marine Biologist Dee Ann Auten of Aquarium of the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Once at sea, the knowledgeable captain guided us to\u00a0a pod of more than 100 porpoises, who swam for miles right next to the ship. Captain Collins cut our speed so we could enjoy them even more.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/boats\/long-beach-whale-watching.html\"> Read more<\/a>&#8230;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>If you go on twice daily whale watching cruises:<\/p>\n<p>Harbor Breeze Cruises,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2seewhales.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">2seewhales.com<\/a><br \/>\n100 Aquarium Way, Dock 2,<br \/>\nRainbow Harbor<br \/>\nLong Beach, CA<br \/>\n(562) 432-4900<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN (10 miles off the Long Beach,\u00a0CA)&#8211;You&#8217;ll have a whale of a time on the Harbor Breeze&#8217;s exciting Whale Watching tours that leave Dock 2, next to the Aquarium of the Pacific twice a day. We recently ventured out on our first whale watching tour aboard the impressive, especially [&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\/6754"}],"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=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}