{"id":566,"date":"2006-08-27T03:50:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T03:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/08\/opening-bolsa-chica\/"},"modified":"2006-08-27T03:50:30","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T03:50:30","slug":"opening-bolsa-chica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/08\/27\/opening-bolsa-chica\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Bolsa Chica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up until a few days ago, much of Bolsa Chica was closed off to the public, so when I heard that they had opened it up I went to go check it out. The water under the bridge is murkier because the water is now able to get into and out of the estuary a bit easier, now that they have widened the opening to the ocean. You can already see a difference.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stingray.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/stingray.JPG\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nWe saw about 6 stingrays in different places, all within a 30 minute span. This one seems to be missing his tail.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"whiteseabass02.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/whiteseabass02.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nSomething was scaring all of the smelt, and we couldn&#8217;t quite make it out. Whatever it was, it was just shy of 2 feet long.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"whiteseabass01.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/whiteseabass01.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nUpon careful inspection, it turns out to be a white sea bass! I have never seen these in Bolsa Chica before. And there were a bunch of them munching on the the smelt!<br \/>\nA few days ago, a school of bonita came up next to the docks in Newport and attacked the smelt as I was teaching a class. The frenzy only lasted 10 seconds, and when it was finished, there were a bunch of baitfish flopping around on the dock. This was exactly how it was in Catalina last weekend, except I have never seen this happen in front of the Sea Base or Sailing Center in the 10 years that I&#8217;ve been around this area.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m taking these unusual sightings as a good omen for the fisheries along the coast. It looks like things are starting to recover. It&#8217;s about time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until a few days ago, much of Bolsa Chica was closed off to the public, so when I heard that they had opened it up I went to go check it out. The water under the bridge is murkier because the water is now able to get into and out of the estuary a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/08\/27\/opening-bolsa-chica\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}