{"id":250,"date":"2006-10-30T14:35:42","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T22:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/skip-stubbs-in-the-sea-of-cortez-2006\/"},"modified":"2016-01-16T05:35:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T21:35:22","slug":"skip-stubbs-in-the-sea-of-cortez-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/skip-stubbs-in-the-sea-of-cortez-2006.html","title":{"rendered":"Skip Stubbs in the Sea of Cortez (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This just in from my good friend and diving partner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stubbs\/index.html\">Skip Stubbs<\/a>, who has just returned from another of his excellent dive expeditions, this time in Mexico&#8217;s wonderful Sea of Cortez and Cabo Pulmo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the past 7 years I have organized October diving trips to the Sea of Cortez departing from La Paz.  It is a spectacular area to see and diving is still great despite the impact of destructive fishing practices.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seawatch.org\">Seawatch&#8217;s website<\/a> has a wealth of information about the fishing and its impacts in the Sea of Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>One can still occasionally see whale sharks, mantas, mobulas, dolphins, and schools of cownose rays, and even killer whales are seen there.  Our trip was highlighted by >2.5 hours of tolerant pilot whales near Las Animas.   The sunsets are among the most beautiful anywhere I have been, even without a marguerita in hand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stubbs\/cortez2006\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lr\/tran\/stubbs_cortez_2006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Click the image above to see some of the stills that Skip captured in the Sea of Cortez this year!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from my good friend and diving partner Skip Stubbs, who has just returned from another of his excellent dive expeditions, this time in Mexico&#8217;s wonderful Sea of Cortez and Cabo Pulmo. For the past 7 years I have organized October diving trips to the Sea of Cortez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-skips-trips"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}