Whale watching tour off Newport Beach gets rare visit from ‘phantoms’ of the Pacific

A whale-watching excursion off the coast of Orange County got an up-and-close visit by a pair of friendly and “extremely curious” minke whales.

The encounter happened Tuesday morning between the whales and a Davey’s Locker Whale Watching tour just miles off the Newport Beach coastline.

Video shared with KTLA showed the normally shy and flighty marine mammals approach the packed boat, circling it several times and surfacing several feet away.

According to Jessica Rodriguez, the Education & Communications Manager at Davey’s Locker Whale Watching, encounters like this are exceedingly rare…

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