{"id":65625,"date":"2011-09-29T15:37:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T14:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/actualites\/2011\/09\/29\/whale-shark-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2011-09-29T15:37:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T14:37:41","slug":"whale-shark-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/news\/2011\/09\/29\/whale-shark-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale Shark in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sighting worth dreaming about.<br \/>\nIt happened last week at Thonga Beach Lodge, on South Africa&#8217;s Indian Ocean coast.<\/p>\n<p>This impressive creature is the largest fish in the world, reaching 8 to 10 metres in length (sometimes more), with a mouth that opens over 1.5m wide \u2014 large enough to swallow a diver&#8230;<br \/>\nBut the whale shark is entirely harmless, feeding only on plankton, and it is far more threatened by humans than the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>A well-regarded lodge known for its character, Thonga Beach also runs a dive centre offering boat excursions. September is a particularly good season to spot whale sharks passing off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>An essential stop on <a title=\"Kruger et Kwazulu Natal avec Etendues Sauvages\" href=\"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/category\/voyages-safaris-afrique-du-sud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a journey through South Africa<\/a> that includes KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sighting worth dreaming about. It happened last week at Thonga Beach Lodge, on South Africa&#8217;s Indian Ocean coast. This impressive creature is the largest fish in the world, reaching 8 to 10 metres in length (sometimes more), with a mouth that opens over 1.5m wide \u2014 large enough to swallow a diver&#8230; But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":64720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[2244,2801,2802,2803,2207,2804,2709,2805,2561],"class_list":["post-65625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","category-mood-pieces","tag-afrique-du-sud","tag-club","tag-diving","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-plongee","tag-requin","tag-requin-baleine","tag-thonga-beach","tag-voyage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}