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A gray whale migrating along the coast of Southern California near Dana Point appears to be having a blast in the company several pacific white-sided dolphins.
The gray whale rolled and twirled in the water, often upside down, sometimes swishing her tail flukes back and forth, as if to say to the dolphins "come play with me"!
At one point the playful whale and dolphins turned towards us and swam right under our catamaran, Manute'a. Known as a whale 'mugging', the boat remains in neutral during this extraordinary surface behavior.
Pacific white-sided dolphins are known to be outgoing and like to 'surf' the pressure wave created by friendly gray whales, in much the same way the dolphins enjoy bow-riding in front of a boat.
Every year gray whales make one of the longest migrations of any mammal on earth. They travel about 12,000 miles round-trip along the U.S. West Coast from their feeding grounds north of Alaska to their mating and birthing lagoons in Baja California, Mexico and back again. Gray whales can be seen off Dana Point November through May.
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📹 Video filmed by licensed drone operator Grayden Fanning and Buck Munson
🎵 Music by Vis Major
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