{"id":803,"date":"2016-05-13T17:14:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T00:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newportcoastaladventure.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2016-05-13T17:14:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T00:14:20","slug":"friday-may-13-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/friday-may-13-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday May 13 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s getting toward the end of Gray Whale season but we&#8217;re still able to find them every day! Starting with the 9:00am trip, we\u00a0went the distance: 11 miles this time put us at Dana Point itself after a call from Capt. Steve on Manate&#8217;a that a cow\/calf pair was northbound. We arrived right in the middle of a great display, with the animals rolling and spy-hopping in less than 20 feet of water. We capped this sighting off with a really nice close encounter; we waited with our engine off after the animals had been submerged for a while and they passed within 20 feet of our bow! I shouldn&#8217;t forget to mention we saw hundreds of playful common dolphins, too! 11:30am departure set out to find these same pair; turns out they were moving really slow so we intercepted them two hours later in front of Aliso Beach in Laguna. Great displays again- spyhops, rolling, and this time with the calf making about a dozen head lunges- we got to see its baleen. These whales were again in really shallow water, about 12 feet deep at one point. We ended the trip with the &#8220;usual&#8221; for this week: hundreds of common dolphins\u00a0two miles off Laguna Beach!<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-805 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/gray-whale-newport-beach-lunge-500x350.jpg\" alt=\"gray-whale-newport-beach-lunge\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s getting toward the end of Gray Whale season but we&#8217;re still able to find them every day! Starting with the 9:00am trip, we\u00a0went the distance: 11 miles this &#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":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewhaleadventure.com\/triplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}