{"id":6775,"date":"2016-09-04T19:56:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T02:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newportcoastaladventure.com\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2016-09-04T19:56:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T02:56:43","slug":"sunday-september-4-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/sunday-september-4-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday September 4 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11:30am- This was the first departure of the day, with no 9am trip. Captain Taylor started things off about 4 miles from Newport Harbor with a really great pod of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1,000 Short Beaked Common Dolphin<\/span>! This was quite a sight, with dolphin jumping high out of the water every direction. One of the largest dolphin pods of the year. Capt. Ryan came over for a look and then went down off of Laguna Beach where we got to see pods of about<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> 200 Long Beaked Common Dolphin.<\/span> The difference between these species is small, but noticeable if you have a keen eye. The Short- Beaked are generally more &#8220;hyper&#8221;, jumping out of the water and enjoying playing with a fast moving boat. Long-Beaks are little more mellow but tend to stick with the boat and bowride better. So we got the best of both today at 11:30am!<\/p>\n<p>3:00pm- Captain Taylor again found the first group of dolphin for both boats, a pod of about 2<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">00 Long Beaked Common Dolphin<\/span> that were really tightly bunched and very playful. Lots of fun! Both boats watched this pod for a better part of an hour, then headed south. Ryan was the first to find what we don&#8217;t hesitate to label a &#8220;super pod&#8221;- more than a 1 mile spread of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1,500 Short-Beaked Common Dolphins<\/span>, jumping everywhere! It was incredible an even topped the sighting we had this morning. No whales today, but believe me, the dolphins were enough fun where they weren&#8217;t really missed. We had to contend with some bumpy sea conditions today; when the weather gets nicer later in the week we can do a little more exploring for whales farther from shore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11:30am- This was the first departure of the day, with no 9am trip. Captain Taylor started things off about 4 miles from Newport Harbor with a really great pod of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}