NEWBORN GRAY WHALE: Rocky Point, from the Voyager! We JUST saw a brand new calf, less than an hour old! Its flukes are still folded in and floppy and thrash around as it learns how to swim, it pops its head high out of the water to catch a breath! Mom is HUGE and very mellow, slowly surfacing and circling and occasionally holding her calf up to breathe! I have been on thousands of whalewatching trips, have seen a few very young calves, but never one just after it entered this world! We came across them in the fog, on our way to a report of six gray whales about 1.5 miles off of Rocky Point (near Pt. Vicente): those whales had just BREACHED, but everyone was so blown away by the magical encounter with the new mom and her calf that we were absolutely entranced.
