What Luck! Californians Get to Watch a Whale of a Spectacle

People aren't the only ones who play in the ocean, as a Pacific gray whale recently illustrated to surprised onlookers at Southern California's Redondo Beach. Watch the young whale, probably on its first solo migration, frolic near the shore in the warm sunshine of an early spring day.

For more whale watching, check out this rare footage of elusive Omura's whales, one of the few times the whale has ever been captured on camera.