Newport Beach has experienced nearly two straight weeks of incredible humpback whale sightings off its coast, including visits from two well-known females who returned to Southern California with new calves in tow, according to whale watching experts.
Davey’s Locker Whale Watching shared incredible new photos and video of the gentle giants as they frolicked off the coast.
Whale watchers encountered “Chompers,” a female adult humpback who is known for lifting her head above the surface and “chomping” her jaws.
Chompers was catalogued by Cascadia Research Collective as CRC-10532 and has been documented by researchers since as early as 1991, according to experts…