{"id":154881,"date":"2020-01-08T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=154881"},"modified":"2020-01-08T19:49:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:49:40","slug":"kayak-video-close-encounter-with-orca-pod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=154881","title":{"rendered":"Kayak Video &#8211; Close Encounter with Pod of Orca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occurred on December 29, 2019 \/ Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While lying in my bed, I notice a disturbance in the otherwise calm sea. Upon further inspection, I quickly became aware that it was a pod of Orca commencing their quest to hunt stingrays. Yelling to my family, I quickly grabbed my paddle and quickly paddled out into our local bay Sandy bay. There, I experienced the most amazing encounter , with the ocra pod. I followed them for over an hour, during which, the orca approached my kayak on numerous occasions. I looked plenty of still shots as well as video footage. I watched In awe as these majestic mammals hunted and feed on the Ray&#8217;s wings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kdl54BonGeE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occurred on December 29, 2019 \/ Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, New Zealand &#8220;While lying in my bed, I notice a disturbance in the otherwise calm sea. Upon further inspection, I quickly became aware that it was a pod of Orca commencing their quest to hunt stingrays. Yelling to my family, I quickly grabbed my paddle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154883,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154881\/revisions\/154883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}