{"id":6827,"date":"2016-09-24T21:32:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T04:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newportcoastaladventure.com\/?p=6827"},"modified":"2016-09-24T21:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T04:32:20","slug":"saturday-september-24-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/saturday-september-24-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday September 24 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9:00am- Wow, what a beautiful morning! Some light offshore wind made for sunny skies and extremely calm water. We couldn&#8217;t wait to get started. Captain Larry on Ocean Explorer had already found a humpback whale for us, about 1 mile from the entrance. We hung out with this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">smaller humpback<\/span>, one that we didn&#8217;t recognize, for about a half hour. It was making longer dives and only up for a few sequences, although we got a couple of good shows of its fluke. Then Captain Ryan went out to sea looking for dolphins. About 4 miles out he spotted some birds in the binoculars and we went to investigate. Upon arriving we found <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">50 long beaked common dolphin and another humpback whale<\/span>! This was &#8220;Scarlett&#8221;, the humpback which had been tangled but now is free. We got super close; it was our best encounter with this whale yet!<\/p>\n<p>11:30am- We wanted to go back out to see &#8220;Scarlett&#8221; but Captain Larry informed us that the whale was moving away, about 9 miles distant, so Capt Ryan pointed the boat towards Laguna. Our friend Royce had found a humpback feeding with dolphin. He waited for us to get there and handed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">another humpback whale<\/span> off to us. We also saw two seperate pods of dolphin on this trip: about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">150 short-beaked common dolphin<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">200 long-beaked common dolphin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3:00pm- The beautiful weather continued through the afternoon, and Captain Larry came to run one of our Zodiacs, so we had two boats running. Ryan was out first and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">found the same humpback<\/span> from the 11:30am trip off Laguna Beach. It was showing great and our passengers loved it. We also enjoyed a pod of about<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> 200 long-beaked common dolphin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9:00am- Wow, what a beautiful morning! Some light offshore wind made for sunny skies and extremely calm water. We couldn&#8217;t wait to get started. Captain Larry on Ocean Explorer had &#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\/6827"}],"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=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}