{"id":618,"date":"2007-09-20T07:13:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T14:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/golden-garibaldi\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T07:18:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T14:18:02","slug":"golden-garibaldi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/golden-garibaldi\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Garibaldi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/garibaldi-rocks.jpg\" title=\"garibaldi-rocks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image617\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/garibaldi-rocks.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"garibaldi-rocks.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a>The bright orange fish seen just below the ocean surface are called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garibaldi_(fish)\">Garibaldi<\/a>; they are fish of the damselfish family that are native to the northern subtropical parts of the Pacific Ocean, ranging from Monterey Bay to Guadalupe Island, Baja California. The Garibaldi is the official &#8220;marine fish&#8221; of the state of California and is protected in California coastal waters.<\/p>\n<p>As we walk along the shoreline in Avalon, we often see Garibaldi just below the surface close to shore or in the waters below the piers and landings. The waters are fairly calm since this part of the island is opposite the prevailing west winds. I took this picture near the Casino point where there were several Garibaldi feeding by the rocks. Click on the image for a larger view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bright orange fish seen just below the ocean surface are called Garibaldi; they are fish of the damselfish family that are native to the northern&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-photography","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}