{"id":6065,"date":"2014-08-01T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:19:31","slug":"a-whale-of-a-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/a-whale-of-a-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"A whale of a tail.  by Jessica Dibling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had a free day today from the turtles rescue. We went out on a whale watching tour on the first day of the season. We were told in the beginning we may not see any because the season had just begun. We left on the boats at 8:00 am and by 8:10 we had already spotted our first humpback whale! We followed them for about an hour watching these amazing animals come up for air. We were so close we could hear the water being pushed out the blow hole. 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