{"id":7151,"date":"2015-02-18T08:19:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T16:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2018-12-31T07:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T23:31:26","slug":"paradise-in-february-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/paradise-in-february-san-diego.html","title":{"rendered":"Paradise in February: San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President&#8217;s Weekend was nice here.  The rest of the country is freezing, yup that&#8217;s pretty bad.  Southern California is in the midst of a bad drought and our Sierra Nevada is missing its usual snowpack which is going to hurt in the coming months, but at least the warm winter makes for clear skies and very nice temps. Here are a couple photos from President&#8217;s Day&#8217;s weekend, all depicting a few of my favorite scenes and all including the Pacific Ocean which was flat calm and glassy much of the time.  Cheers and thanks for looking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=30469\" title=\"Broken Hill and view to La Jolla, panoramic photograph, from...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/broken-hill-sunrise-torrey-pines-picture-30469-2397.jpg\" alt=\"Broken Hill and view to La Jolla, panoramic photograph, from Torrey Pines State Reserve, sunrise, San Diego, California\" title=\"Broken Hill and view to La Jolla, panoramic photograph, from Torrey Pines State Reserve, sunrise, San Diego, California\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Broken Hill and view to La Jolla, panoramic photograph, from Torrey Pines State Reserve, sunrise<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=30469\">30469<\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=torrey_pines_state_reserve&amp;city=san_diego&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Torrey Pines State Reserve<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=san_diego&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">San Diego<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=30463\" title=\"Gray whale raising fluke before diving, on southern migratio...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/gray-whale-raising-fluke-before-diving-san-diego-photograph-30463-3240.jpg\" alt=\"Gray whale raising fluke before diving, on southern migration to calving lagoons in Baja, Eschrichtius robustus, San Diego, California\" title=\"Gray whale raising fluke before diving, on southern migration to calving lagoons in Baja, Eschrichtius robustus, San Diego, California\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gray whale raising fluke before diving, on southern migration to calving lagoons in Baja.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=30463\">30463<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/gray_whale_photo.html\" title=\"Gray whale photos\">Gray whale<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Eschrichtius_robustus\" title=\"Eschrichtius robustus photos\"><i>Eschrichtius robustus<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=san_diego&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">San Diego<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=30464\" title=\"Gray whale raising fluke before diving, on southern migratio...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/gray-whale-raising-fluke-before-diving-san-diego-photo-30464-86432.jpg\" alt=\"Gray whale raising fluke before diving, on southern migration to calving lagoons in Baja, Eschrichtius robustus, San Diego, California\" title=\"Gray whale raising fluke before diving, on southern migration to calving lagoons in Baja, Eschrichtius robustus, San Diego, California\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gray whale raising fluke before diving, on southern migration to calving lagoons in Baja.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=30464\">30464<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/gray_whale_photo.html\" title=\"Gray whale photos\">Gray whale<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Eschrichtius_robustus\" title=\"Eschrichtius robustus photos\"><i>Eschrichtius robustus<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=san_diego&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">San Diego<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=30449\" title=\"California Brown Pelican head throw, stretching its throat t...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/california-brown-pelican-head-throw-la-jolla-picture-30449-38540.jpg\" alt=\"California Brown Pelican head throw, stretching its throat to keep it flexible and healthy. Note the winter mating plumage, olive and red throat, yellow head, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, La Jolla\" title=\"California Brown Pelican head throw, stretching its throat to keep it flexible and healthy. Note the winter mating plumage, olive and red throat, yellow head, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, La Jolla\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Brown Pelican head throw, stretching its throat to keep it flexible and healthy. Note the winter mating plumage, olive and red throat, yellow head.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=30449\">30449<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/brown_pelican_photo.html\" title=\"Brown Pelican photos\">Brown Pelican<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Pelecanus_occidentalis\" title=\"Pelecanus occidentalis photos\"><i>Pelecanus occidentalis<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Pelecanus_occidentalis_californicus\" title=\"Pelecanus occidentalis californicus photos\"><i>Pelecanus occidentalis californicus<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=la_jolla&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">La Jolla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=30461\" title=\"Surf and spray during Santa Ana offshore winds\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/surf-and-spray-during-santa-ana-offshore-winds-picture-30461-36854.jpg\" alt=\"Surf and spray during Santa Ana offshore winds, San Diego, California\" title=\"Surf and spray during Santa Ana offshore winds, San Diego, California\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Surf and spray during Santa Ana offshore winds<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=30461\">30461<\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=san_diego&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">San Diego<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President&#8217;s Weekend was nice here. The rest of the country is freezing, yup that&#8217;s pretty bad. Southern California is in the midst of a bad drought and our Sierra Nevada is missing its usual snowpack which is going to hurt in the coming months, but at least the warm winter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[212,221,310,327,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-7151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-birds","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-torrey-pines-state-reserve","12":"tag-whales"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","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=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}