{"id":37510,"date":"2010-09-18T18:44:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T01:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=37510"},"modified":"2010-09-18T18:44:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T01:44:49","slug":"californias-santa-cruz-island-sea-kayaking-andsushi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=37510","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Santa Cruz Island: sea kayaking and&#8230;sushi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My dinner lay spread out beneath me in every direction, plainly visible in the crystalline waters. The rocky inlets and kelp forests of Central California&#8217;s eight Channel Islands are home to what is considered to be some of the finest uni, or sea urchin, in the world. To better see them in their natural habitat, I was sea kayaking off Santa Cruz Island, 25 miles offshore of the Santa Barbara Channel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;d decided on a day trip with Ventura-based outfitter, Island Packers. Confession: I grew up 30 miles south of the quiet coastal community (which is an hour&#8217;s drive from LA), but I&#8217;d never before visited the islands. It&#8217;s just one of those things on my to-do list that kept getting pushed aside, until a friend invited me to join him on a paddle\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/2010\/09\/15\/californias-channel-islands\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dinner lay spread out beneath me in every direction, plainly visible in the crystalline waters. The rocky inlets and kelp forests of Central California&#8217;s eight Channel Islands are home to what is considered to be some of the finest uni, or sea urchin, in the world. To better see them in their natural habitat, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37510","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=37510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37511,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37510\/revisions\/37511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}