A gray whale migrating from Mexico to Alaska made a stop on its trip to put on an unusual show for California beachgoers.

The drone footage, captured on February 24 in Newport Beach, shows the 35-feet-long whale rolling around in extremely shallow water.

Gray whales travel 12,000 miles every year from their winter calving lagoons in the warm waters of Mexico and their feeding grounds in the cold Arctic seas.

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This gray whale is headed North from Mexico to Alaska and stopped at the beach to roll around, possibly to rub barnacles off. This happened around 10:00am and a few lucky beach goers were surprised to see the whale there. These gray whales have a 12,000 mile annual journey from their feeding grounds in Alaska to their winter/birthing/mating grounds in Baja California, Mexico. This was filmed in Newport Beach, California. Along with credit to Newsflare, please give credit to "Mark Girardeau" and "Newport Coastal Adventure" which is the whale watch company I was on during this encounter.