[Cover Photo: Holly Griffith]

It’s not uncommon to see bodyboarders get beached at “The Wedge” but a baby whale? Now that you don’t see that everyday.

Related: Surfers Getting Broke Off @ The Wedge for 5 Minutes Straight

According to the OC Register, that’s exactly what happened after a juvenile gray whale washed up near the shoreline on Friday at the popular SoCal surf spot. Spectator Holly Griffith was sitting watching body boarders ride the break until she realized the peanut gallery’s focus had shifted. “All of a sudden everyone looked away from the body boarders and watched it.” Griffith told the OC Register. “The waves just kept pushing him up toward the sand.”

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Joe Medina, who regularly body boards the break, told the OC Register that he caught the wave prior to the whale. After getting up, he noticed something floating in the foam. “At first I thought it was a dead body, ’cause it was floating in the surf and it looked black like a wet suit” but after seeing the fin, he realized it was a grey whale. “If I had taken the wave after the one I caught, I could have been taken out by that whale.”

After flopping around in the shallow surf, the baby whale made its way back towards the deep ocean.

Find the entire OC Register article here: Baby whale washes up near the Wedge in Newport Beach, swims back out

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