{"id":500,"date":"2024-03-08T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T06:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanderers.qodeinteractive.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2024-05-10T22:53:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T17:23:44","slug":"solo-traveler-learns-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildangleswithmevan.com\/new\/solo-traveler-learns-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants of the ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Such are the wonders of Sri Lanka that if you were game, you could see both land and ocean behemoths on the same day. Just two-and-a-half hours from Yala is the port town of Mirissa, from where whale watching excursions take place almost year-round.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;13px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1519805823244{padding-right: 7% !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;16px&#8221;][vc_column_text]The big draw are the south coast\u2019s enormous blue whales, which unlike most blue whale populations in the world, are non-migratory, and spend the year feeding and breeding in the same waters. [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;13px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1519805823244{padding-right: 7% !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;16px&#8221;][vc_column_text]As the continental shelf drops off several kilometres from the southern coast, waters in this area are extremely deep, despite being relatively close to land. This has allowed all manner of marine megafauna to congregate, many of them seasonally. In addition to blue whales, humpback whales, sperm whales, Bryde\u2019s whales and even orcas are frequently seen in these waters, in addition to various species of dolphin. [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;13px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1519805823244{padding-right: 7% !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;16px&#8221;][vc_column_text]Aside from the mammals, the world\u2019s largest fish \u2013 whale sharks \u2013 have also been known to frequent these waters. Aside from the south, whales are also seasonally found off Kalpitiya, towards the northwest of the island, and off Trincomalee, off the northeast.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;13px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1519805823244{padding-right: 7% !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such are the wonders of Sri Lanka that if you were game, you could see both land and ocean behemoths on the same day. Just two-and-a-half hours from Yala is the port town of Mirissa, from where whale watching excursions take place almost year-round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-photography","category-travel","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildangleswithmevan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildangleswithmevan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildangleswithmevan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildangleswithmevan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildangleswithmevan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wildangleswithmevan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"https:\/\/wildangleswithmevan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildangleswithmevan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildangleswithmevan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildangleswithmevan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}