It’s only 3pm and I’m already onto my third boat of the day. This time, chugging across the glistening waters of Newport Beach, champagne flute in hand as we ogle the luxury beach house that is the home of Oculus VR headset inventor, Palmer Luckey, from our own electric duffy boat. Our destination? The Cannery, a chic waterside restaurant famous among Orange County locals for its seafood happy hour and its unique ‘dock and dine’ experience that sees most guests pull up to their reservation by boat.
It was only a matter of hours ago that we spent our morning tucking into our first corn dog next to the surfers on Balboa Island and — our trip highlight so far — gasping into our binoculars as we approached a thin black line on the horizon that turned out to be a pod of 500 dolphins, during a whale watching tour with Newport Whales (you can imagine the gasps from our boat when two humpback whales paid us a visit shortly after).
