State officials were notified Friday morning of a newborn humpback whale calf that was found dead on a beach in Kihei. Federal officials worked with a Native Hawaiian practitioner as well as with state and county officials to carefully bring the calf to its final resting place far offshore,

Federal and state officials are recovering the carcass of a humpback whale calf from the shores of Kihei, Maui.

Jupiter resident Mike Lee was plying the azure waters off the coast of Palm Beach County looking for bait last month when he found something so much bigger. A humpback whale cruised incognito alongside his vessel until its slick black body shot out of the ocean like a rocket before belly flopping in a spectacular breach in waters so close to the shore you can see fuzzy outlines of beachgoers and umbrellas in the photo Lee took.

Humpback whales are typically not found near Miami, but they can be spotted in the waters off South Florida during their migration.