{"id":10192,"date":"2009-07-15T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/whale-watching-season-has-hit-warrnambool-3\/"},"modified":"2009-07-15T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T08:18:00","slug":"whale-watching-season-has-hit-warrnambool-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/07\/whale-watching-season-has-hit-warrnambool-3\/","title":{"rendered":"WHALE WATCHING SEASON HAS HIT WARRNAMBOOL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coastal capital of the Great Ocean Road &#8211; Warrnambool &#8211; has welcomed some Southern Right Whales, to its Logans Beach whale nursery \u2013 marking the beginning of the whale watching season for 2009!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The whales are traditionally in Warrnambool&#8217;s waters until October each year \u2013 so while you have the chance &#8211; get to Warrnambool to watch these amazing mammals. The specially designed whale-viewing platform at Logans Beach allows visitors to experience the whales that venture within 100 metres of the shoreline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The winter months are a great time to be in Warrnambool\u2013 the town is a buzz with whale sightings, with everyone down at Logans Beach waiting for the whales to breach &#038; blow,&#8221; said Carole Reid, Chief Executive Officer \u2013 Shipwreck Coast Marketing. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The town of Warrnambool, Victoria goes into &#8220;whale mode&#8221; during the season and looks forward to their Antarctic visitors, who travel to the warmer waters off Warrnambool to have their calves.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Head down to Warrnambool and join in the excitement with a range of special whale watching experiences and accommodation packages on offer. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New for 2009 Whale Season:-<\/p>\n<p>There is a range of new ways to experience Warrnambool Whales in 2009:-<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Train \u2013 VLINE from Melbourne and be collected from Warrnambool Station \u2013 Bookings required at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitwarrnambool.com.au\/\">www.visitwarrnambool.com.au<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Plane \u2013 Air Warrnambool operates flights over the Logans Beach area to get a birds eye view;<\/li>\n<li>Boat &#8211; Perfect opportunity to see the whales from the sea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>All tour options are available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitwarrnambool.com.au\/\">www.visitwarrnambool.com.au<\/a>\u00a0 or by calling the Warrnambool Visitor Centre 1800 637 725<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coastal capital of the Great Ocean Road &#8211; Warrnambool &#8211; has welcomed some Southern Right Whales, to its Logans Beach whale nursery \u2013 marking the beginning of the whale watching season for 2009!\u00a0 The whales are traditionally in Warrnambool&#8217;s waters until October each year \u2013 so while you have the chance &#8211; get to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}